Margaret Atwood, André Alexis among the nominees of the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist
The Scotiabank Giller Prize's annual celebration of Canadian literature announced this year's longlist.
The Giller Prize was founded by Jack Rabinovitch to showcase the best in Canadian fiction in 1994. With 117 works submitted, the longlist features the final 12 nominees.
Below is the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist:
• André Alexis for his novel Days by Moonlight, published by Coach House Books
• Margaret Atwood for her novel The Testaments, published by McClelland & Stewart
• David Bezmozgis for his short story collection Immigrant City, published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
• Michael Christie for his novel Greenwood, published by McClelland & Stewart
• Megan Gail Coles for her novel Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club, published by House of Anansi Press
• Michael Crummey for his novel The Innocents, published by Doubleday Canada
• Adam Foulds for his novel Dream Sequence, published by Biblioasis
• K.D. Miller for her short story collection Late Breaking, published by Biblioasis
• Alix Ohlin for her novel Dual Citizens, published by House of Anansi Press
• Steven Price for his novel Lampedusa, published by McClelland & Stewart
• Zalika Reid-Benta for her short story collection Frying Plantain, published by Astoria, an imprint of House of Anansi Press
• Ian Williams for his novel Reproduction, published by Random House Canada
The Giller Prize awards $100 000 annually to the best Canadian novel or short story published in English and $10 000 to each of the finalists.
The longlist is selected by a five-member jury that includes Canadian authors Donna Bailey Nurse, Randy Boyagoda, Canadian playwright José Teodoro, Aminatta Forna and Bosnian-American author Aleksandar Hemon.
The 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize gala will air on Monday, November 18th on CBC at 9 p.m., (ET) CBC Radio One at 9 p.m. (ET) and will be livestreamed at CBCBooks.ca.