Six books have made the short list for Canada’s most lucrative prize for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize worth $100,000. The short- listed authors are:
* David Bezmozgis for his novel “The Betrayers,” published by HarperCollins Canada
* Frances Itani for her novel “Tell,” published by HarperCollins Canada
* Sean Michaels for his novel “Us Conductors,” published by Random House Canada
* Heather O’Neill for her novel “The Girl Who Was Saturday Night,” published by HarperCollins Canada
* Miriam Toews for her novel “All My Puny Sorrows,” published by Knopf Canada
* Padma Viswanathan for her novel “The Ever After of Ashwin Rao,” published by Random House Canada
The prize was created in 1994 by Jack Rabinovitch, a reporter who turned to business and philanthropy. He named it in honour of his late wife, literary editor Doris Giller.
This year’s jury included Canadian author Shauna Singh Baldwin, British novelist Justin Cartwright and U.S. writer Francine Prose. They reviewed 161 books novels and short-story collections published in English.
The winner will be announced at a gala in Toronto on November 10. The runners-up will each receive $10,000. To be considered, a work must be published in Canada and be written by a citizen or permanent resident.
You can learn more about the shortlisted books at a special site set up by the public broadcaster, CBC.
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