 | Thursday, November 09, 2023 | |  | | | | Books by Sarah Bernstein, Eleanor Catton, Kevin Chong, Dionne Irving and CS Richardson have been shortlisted for the 2023 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The $100,000 prize is the biggest in Canadian literature and the winner will be revealed on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023.
Rick Mercer returns to host the ceremony, which will be broadcast on CBC TV, CBC Gem, CBC Listen and CBC Radio and streamed online through CBC Books and YouTube. | | |  | | | | Hamilton writer Anuja Varghese has won the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction for her short story collection Chrysalis.
The prizes, administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, are awarded in seven English-language categories: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young people's literature — text, young people's literature — illustration, drama and French-to-English translation. | | |  | | | | Thirty-two writers from across Canada have been longlisted for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize. The winner, who will be announced on Nov. 23, will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a writing residency and have their work published on CBC Books. | | |  | | | | Set across the United States, Jamaica and Europe from the 1950s to present day, The Islands details the migration stories of Jamaican women and their descendants. Each short story explores colonialism and its impact as women experience the on-going tensions between identity and the place they long to call home.
Giller-nominated writer Dionne Irving spoke to The Next Chapter’s Ryan B. Patrick about her book. | | |  | | | | Inspired by the life and work of physicist Abdus Salam, the first Muslim to win a Nobel Prize, Everything There Is follows the complicated life of a deeply brilliant man who is devout in his religion and his work in physics.
Toronto-based author M.G. Vassanji spoke to The Next Chapter’s Ali Hassan about what inspired his latest novel. | | |  | | | | Jesmyn Ward is the first woman and first Black person to win the National Book award twice, for her novels Salvage the Bones and Sing, Unburied, Sing. In 2014, the American author spoke with Writers & Company’s Eleanor Wachtel about her novel, Let Us Descend, a story about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War. | | |  | | | | Crime Story is a weekly podcast that dives deep into a true crime story with the storyteller who knows it best. Investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar and producer Alexis Green shared their top book recommendations for fans of the mysterious genre. | | |  | | | | Every year, CBC Books enlists the help of established writers and editors from across Canada to read the thousands of entries submitted to our prizes. The readers for the 2023 CBC Poetry Prize included writers like Angela Bowden, D.M Bradford and Emily Riddle.
The shortlist will be announced on Nov. 16 and the winner on Nov. 23. | | |  | | | | Nova Scotian writer Shelley Thompson has adapted her 2021 screenplay into a novel called Roar, which follows Dawn, a young transgender woman finding acceptance in her rural hometown. Thompson shared the process of bringing on sensitivity readers in addition to her own experience as the parent of a transgender child. | | |  | | | | Valley of the Birdtail by Andrew Stobo Sniderman and Douglas Sanderson is among the shortlist for the 2024 Kobzar Book Award. Presented biennially by the Ukrainian Canadian Foundation, the Kobzar Book Award celebrates Ukrainian stories in Canada and authors whose works demonstrate a tangible connection to the Ukrainian Canadian community.
The winner will be announced in Winnipeg on Mar. 21, 2024. | | | Share this newsletter | | or subscribe if this was
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