Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay has made the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize longlist for The Brother.

The winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and have the opportunity to attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

The shortlist will be announced on Sept. 22 and the winner will be announced on Sept. 29.

If you're interested in the CBC Literary Prizes, the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize is open for submissions until Oct. 31.

Baijayanta Mukhopadhyay is a family doctor who lives in Montreal and works primarily in Eeyou Istchee, Treaty 3 and 9 territories, as well with undocumented migrants and unhoused people in the city. He is a member of the clinical faculty at McGill University's department of family medicine and also organises around issues related to extractivism, migrant rights and public services. His previous works include the book A Labour of Liberation as well as essays in Briarpatch Magazine, Sarai Reader and Upping the Anti. A book on the politics of infectious disease in colonial Turtle Island is forthcoming.

"Who we call when dying."

"Contemplating who witnesses the whole arc of our stories."

Pus, tumour, blood and water: the chest X-ray is a white blur on the right. Either we have been given inaccurate information or she has deteriorated badly in the three days it had taken for the transfer to occur. I had known there was no treatment left for her cancer, but I had not anticipated that she would be so actively dying.

It is my first week as a fully fledged doctor in the ward. The nurse taking care of her is also a new graduate; we glance at one another, our eyes widening in mild alarm when the patient arrives.

The winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, have their work published on CBC Books and attend a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts and Creativity. Four finalists will each receive $1,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts and have their work published on CBC Books.

The 2022 CBC Short Story Prize is currently open for submissions until Oct. 31, 2021. The 2022 CBC Nonfiction Prize will open in January and the 2022 CBC Poetry Prize will open in April.