{"id":229367,"date":"2019-09-03T22:15:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T02:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=229367"},"modified":"2019-09-03T22:15:40","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T02:15:40","slug":"margaret-atwood-andre-alexis-earn-spots-on-scotiabank-giller-prize-long-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/03\/margaret-atwood-andre-alexis-earn-spots-on-scotiabank-giller-prize-long-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Margaret Atwood, Andre Alexis earn spots on Scotiabank Giller Prize long list"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Previous Scotiabank Giller Prize winners Margaret Atwood and Andre Alexis are on this year’s long list for the $100,000 Canadian honour. (File Photo<\/a>: Brattle Theatre\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

JOHN’S, N.L. \u2014Previous Scotiabank Giller Prize winners Margaret Atwood and Andre Alexis are on this year’s long list for the $100,000 Canadian honour.<\/p>\n

Esi Edugyan, who won her second Giller Prize last year, announced the dozen authors in line to succeed her at an event in St. John’s, N.L., on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Atwood is competing with “The Testaments,”\u00a0which will be published by McClelland & Stewart on Sept. 10.<\/p>\n

The much-hyped sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale”\u00a0has also been shortlisted for the international Man Booker Prize.<\/p>\n

Alongside Atwood, familiar names on the Giller long list include Alexis, a Trinidad native who grew up in Ottawa, for “Days by Moonlight,”\u00a0published by Coach House Books.<\/p>\n

Alexis was the 2015 winner for “Fifteen Dogs”\u00a0while Atwood won the prize in 1996 for “Alias Grace.”<\/p>\n

Also receiving nods this year are several previous Giller finalists: Michael Crummey for “The Innocents”\u00a0(Doubleday Canada); Latvian-born, Toronto-raised author and filmmaker David Bezmozgis for the short story collection “Immigrant City”\u00a0(HarperCollins Publishers); and Montreal-raised Alix Ohlin for “Dual Citizens”\u00a0(House of Anansi Press).<\/p>\n

Earning a spot on the long list for a second time are Thunder Bay, Ont.-raised Michael Christie’s “Greenwood”\u00a0and Victoria poet and novelist Steven Price for “Lampedusa,”\u00a0both published by McClelland & Stewart.<\/p>\n

Other noted writers receiving Giller recognition include U.K.-born, Toronto-based Adam Foulds for “Dream Sequence”\u00a0and Hamilton, Ont.-born K.D. Miller’s short story collection “Late Breaking,”\u00a0both published by Biblioasis.<\/p>\n

Among the newcomers making the long list for their debut novels are Vancouver-based poet Ian Williams for “Reproduction”\u00a0(Random House Canada), and St. John’s, N.L.-based Megan Gail Coles for “Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club”\u00a0(House of Anansi Press).<\/p>\n

Toronto’s Zalika Reid-Benta is also in the running for her first short-story collection, “Frying Plantain,”\u00a0published by Astoria, an imprint of House of Anansi Press.<\/p>\n

Giller organizers say the long list was culled from 117 submissions by a jury panel featuring Canadian writers Donna Bailey Nurse, Randy Boyagoda and Jose Teodoro, joined by Scottish-Sierra Leonean author Aminatta Forna and Bosnian-American author Aleksandar Hemon.<\/p>\n

The short list will be revealed on Sept. 30, with the winner to be named at a Toronto gala on Nov. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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