September 7, 2016 (Toronto, ON) - The Scotiabank Giller Prize is pleased to announce its longlist for this year's award. The twelve titles were chosen from a field of 161 books submitted by 69 publisher imprints from every region of the country.
The longlist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize is:
- Mona Awad for her
novel 13 Ways of Looking at
a Fat Girl, published
by Penguin Canada
- Gary Barwin for his
novel Yiddish for Pirates, published by Random
House Canada
- Andrew Battershill for his
novel Pillow, published by Coach House Books
- David Bergen for his
novel Stranger, published by HarperCollins
Publishers Ltd
- Emma Donoghue for her
novel The Wonder, published by HarperCollins
Publishers Ltd
- Catherine Leroux for her
novel The Party Wall,
published by Biblioasis International Translation Series, translated by
Lazer Lederhendler
- Kathy Page for her
story collection The Two of Us,
published by A John Metcalf Book, an imprint of Biblioasis
- Susan Perly for her
novel Death Valley, published by Buckrider Books,
an imprint of Wolsak and Wynn Publishers
- Kerry Lee Powell for her
story collection Willem De Kooning's
Paintbrush,
published by HarperAvenue, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Steven Price for his
novel By Gaslight, published by McClelland &
Stewart
- Madeleine Thien for her
novel Do Not Say We Have
Nothing, published by
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Zoe Whittall for her
novel The Best Kind of People, published by House
of Anansi Press Inc.
The longlist was selected by an esteemed five-member jury panel: Canadian writers Lawrence Hill (Jury Chair), Jeet Heer and Kathleen Winter, along with British author Samantha Harvey and Scottish writer Alan Warner.
This year's shortlist will be announced at a press event to be held at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto on Monday, September 26.
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