Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Longlists: Giller Prize, National Book Award Poetry

Publishers Lunch


Canada's Giller Prize announced their longlist of twelve books:

Arjun Basu
, Waiting for the Man (ECW Press)
David Bezmogzis, The Betrayers (Little, Brown/Harper Canada)
Rivka Galchen, American Innovations (FSG/Harper Canada)
Frances Itani, Tell (Black Cat (forthcoming)/Harper Canada)
Jennifer Lovegrove, Watch How We Walk (ECW Press)
Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Tin House/RH Canada)
Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday Canada)
Heather O'Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (FSG/Harper Canada)
Kathy Page, Paradise and Elsewhere (Biblioasis)
Claire Holden Rothman, My October (Penguin Canada)
Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (McSweeney's/Knopf Canada)
Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (RH Canada)

The shortlist will be announced October 6 and the winner will be named November 10. As a result of additional funding, the winner will now receive $100,000 (CA) and the finalists $10,000 each.

The National Book Awards also announced their poetry longlist Tuesday:

Linda Bierds, Roget's Illusion (Putnam)
Brian Blanchfield, A Several World (Nightboat Books)
Louise Gluck, Faithful and Virtuous Night (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Edward Hirsch, Gabriel: A Poem (Knopf)
Fanny Howe, Second Childhood (Graywolf Press)
Maureen N. McLane, This Blue (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Fred Moten, The Feel Trio (Letter Machine Editions)
Claudia Rankine, Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf Press)
Spencer Reece, The Road to Emmaus (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)
Mark Strand, Collected Poems (Knopf) 

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