The short list for the $50,000 Giller prize:
Will Ferguson’s novel 419 was
praised as a global novel, “at home in the poverty of Lagos and in the
day-to-day of North America…[that] tells us the ways in which we are now
bound together and reminds us of the things that will always keep us
apart.”
Alix Ohlin’s novel Inside begins when a woman mistakes a man for a log. It was
described by the jury as a novel about people, “that jumps between
decades, locations and characters with a precision that makes Ohlin’s
hard work seem effortless.
The Imposter Bride by Nancy Richler
revolves around the mystery of Lily Azerov. The novel “shifts through
Lily’s past and her daughter, Ruth’s present, interwoven with the
perceptions of her whole extended family, as they adjust to the comforts
of Montreal” after the horrors of the Holocaust.
Kim Thúy’s novel Ru, translated by Sheila Fischman, is the story of a journey from Viet Nam to
Quebec. The jury said “Thúy is a born storytelle, but she rewrites the
traditional immigrant narrative in a completely new way.”
Whirl Away, a short story collection by Newfoundland author and journalist Russell
Wangersky, was praised as a collection in which “each story stand
starkly and wonderfully alone.
The jurors were Irish author and screenwriter Roddy Doyle; Canadian
publisher, writer, and essayist Anna Porter; and American author and
satirist Gary Shteyngart. The prize was founded by Jack Rabinovitch in 1994 in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller. The winner will be announced at a gala on October 30.
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