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Six Canadian Titles compete for Best First Book
1. Alexander MacLeod’s Light Lifting
2. Sarah Selecky’s The Cake is for the Party
3. Katrina Best’s Bird Eat Bird
4. Carole Enahoro’s Doing Dangerously Well
5. Darcie Friesen Hossack’s Mennonites Don’t Dance and
6. Miguel Syjuco’s Illustrado.
Six titles represent Canada and the Caribbean for Best Book
1. Emma Donoghue’s Room
2. Caroline Adderson’s The Sky is Falling
3. Jack Hodgins’ The Master of Happy Endings
4. Adam Lewis Schroeder’s In The Fabled East
5. Michael Winter’s The Death of Donna Whalen
6. Richard B. Wright’s Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard.
Key Dates: Regional winners will be announced March 3rd and overall winners on May 21st.
To learn more about the Commonwealth Writers Prize and see all the Regional Short Lists read this.
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September 20, 2010 (Toronto, ON) – The 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury today announced its longlist of books in the running for this year’s award, selecting 13 titles out of 98 books. The shortlisted finalists will be announced on Tuesday, October 5th.
THE TITLES FOR 2010 GILLER LONGLIST
- David Bergen for his novel THE MATTER WITH MORRIS
- Douglas Coupland for his novel PLAYER ONE
- Michael Helm for his novel CITIES OF REFUGE
- Alexander MacLeod for his short story collection LIGHT LIFTING
- Avner Mandelman for his novel THE DEBBA
- Tom Rachman for his novel THE IMPERFECTIONISTS
- Sarah Selecky for her short story collection THIS CAKE IS FOR THE PARTY
- Johanna Skibsrud for her novel THE SENTIMENTALISTS
- Cordelia Strube for her novel LEMON
- Joan Thomas for her novel CURIOSITY
- Jane Urquhart for her novel SANCTUARY LINE
- Dianne Warren for her novel COOL WATER
- Kathleen Winter for her novel ANNABEL
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