Emma Donoghue, Madeleine Thien, David Bergen among 12 writers on the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist
Erin Balser | CBC | Posted: July 14, 2017 12:02 AM | Last Updated: September 14, 2017
Both established names and up-and-coming writers make up the longlist for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. Past winner David Bergen is nominated for his new novel, Stranger; and Emma Donoghue, who has enjoyed recent success with the film adaptation of her novel Room, is acknowledged for her newest effort, The Wonder. Madeleine Thien continues to rack up the accolades for Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which was also longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.
New writers to the Giller fold include Mona Awad, whose novel 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award earlier this year; and Kerry Lee Powelll. Andrew Battershill's debut effort, Pillow, gets a nod, as does the first novel of longtime poet Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates.
The complete longlist for the $100,000 prize — which is the richest in Canadian literature — is:
- 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
- Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
- Pillow by Andrew Battershill
- Stranger by David Bergen
- The Wonder by Emma Donoghue
- The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
- The Two of Us by Kathy Page
- Death Valley by Susan Perly
- Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush by Kerry Lee Powell
- By Gaslight by Steven Price
- Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
- The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
A five-person jury consisting of Canadians Lawrence Hill, Kathleen Winter and Jeet Heer, British author Samantha Harvey and Scottish author Alan Warner, chose the 12-title longlist from 161 publisher submissions.
The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 26, 2016. The winner will be announced on Nov. 7, 2016.
André Alexis won the prize in 2015 for his novel Fifteen Dogs.