Vancouver-born Madeleine Thien could walk away with two of the biggest awards in fiction this fall as she joins a female-dominated list of finalists for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The Montreal-based author was named to the short list for the $100,000 prize on Monday for "Do Not Say We Have Nothing'' (Knopf Canada), which is set in China before, during and after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The novel is also in the running for the prestigious Man Booker Prize, which will be awarded Oct. 25.
Acclaimed Irish-born, London, Ont.-based author Emma Donoghue was recognized for her mysterious novel "The Wonder'' (HarperCollins). She made the long list four years ago for "The Sealed Letter.''
The Giller honour continues a steady stream of recognition in 2016 for Donoghue, who nabbed an adapted screenplay Oscar nomination earlier this year for her celebrated novel "Room.''
"(For) Canadian writers, I don't think anything gives us quite as much of a glow as getting on any Giller list. It's got such a great reputation, this prize,'' Donoghue said in a recent phone interview.
Montreal-born author Mona Awad was recognized for her debut "13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl'' (Penguin Random House Canada), which already received the $40,000 Amazon.ca First Novel Award in May.
Montreal's Catherine Leroux was honoured for "The Party Wall,'' translated by Lazer Lederhendler (Biblioasis International Translation Series), and Toronto-based Zoe Whittall made the cut for "The Best Kind of People'' (House of Anansi Press).
Hamilton-based Gary Barwin is the lone male author on this year's short list for his novel "Yiddish for Pirates'' (Random House Canada).
The jury, chaired by Lawrence Hill, read 161 books submitted by 69 publisher imprints. The short list of six titles was selected from a long list of 12 works announced earlier this month.
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Joining Hill and Heer on this year's jury are fellow Canadian writer Kathleen Winter, British author Samantha Harvey and Scottish writer Alan Warner.
A series of special readings will be held in celebration of this year's authors in Halifax on Oct. 14, Vancouver on Oct. 17 and Toronto on Nov. 6.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $100,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English, and $10,000 to each of the finalists.
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"The Debaters'' host Steve Patterson will host this years's Scotiabank Giller Prize gala, which will air on CBC-TV and be livestreamed at CBCBooks.ca on Nov. 7 at 9 p.m. ET.
full article: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2016/09/26/giller-prize-short-list-2016_n_12201306.html
audio clips of the books and authors: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2016/09/emma-donoghue-madeleine-thien-make-scotiabank-giller-prize-shortlist.html
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NOTE:
We read nominee Emma Donohue's book Room
Mona Awad's "13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl" was one of the books we considered for this year.
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