Canada’s Giller Prize announced their shortlist on Monday:
David Bezmogzis, The Betrayers (Little, Brown/Harper Canada)
Frances Itani, Tell (Black Cat (forthcoming)/Harper Canada)
Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Tin House/RH Canada)
Heather O’Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (FSG/Harper Canada)
Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (McSweeney’s/Knopf Canada)
Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (RH Canada)
The Governor General’s Literary Awards also announced their shortlists Tuesday in a number of categories, with the winners to be announced on November 18. The fiction finalists include:
Michael Crummey, Sweetland (Liveright/Doubleday Canada)
Bill Gaston, Juliet Was a Surprise (Hamish Hamilton)
Claire Holden Rothman, My October (Penguin Canada)
Thomas King, The Back of the Turtle (Harper Canada)
Joan Thomas, The Opening Sky (McClelland & Stewart)