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The Giller Prize Proudly Presents its 2025 Shortlist

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Vancouver Writers Fest @writersfest.bc.ca · 2d

Congratulations to the 2025 @gillerprize.bsky.social finalists. We can’t wait to hear from all five authors at #VWF2025 this month!

@eddyboudeltan.bsky.social
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
Mona Awad
Emma Knight
Souvankham Thammavongsa

gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p...

October 6, 2025 (Toronto, ON) – Five remarkable Canadian writers have been named to the 2025 Giller Prize Shortlist. Representing the boldness, inventiveness, and transformational power of Canadian li...

The Giller Prize Proudly Presents its 2025 Shortlist

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John Jethi @johnjethi.bsky.social · 2d

@gillerprize.bsky.social just announced their shortlist for 2025. Am excited to pick these books for my next reading. Am starting with “We Love You, Bunny” by Mona Awad.

#gillerprize #gillerprize #weloveyoubunny #booksky #reading #books #canlit #canadianliterature

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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 2d

We are pleased to share the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist! Learn more here: gillerprize.ca/the-giller-p... #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

October 6, 2025 (Toronto, ON) – Five remarkable Canadian writers have been named to the 2025 Giller Prize Shortlist. Representing the boldness, inventiveness, and transformational power of Canadian li...

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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 3d

One more sleep! We're announcing the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET.

Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we share the news! gillerprize.ca/newsletter

#CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianfiction #canadianliterature

Giller Spotlight: André Alexis

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 3d

"For years after my father’s death, I had not been able to write about him. Then, after writing Houyhnhnm, my memories of him came flooding back, altered and strange. Other Worlds, as a result, feels very personal." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

André Alexis' short story collection, Other Worlds, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. André Alexis is an author of novels, short stories, and plays. His 2015 novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the...

Giller Spotlight: Joanna Cockerline

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 3d

"Parts of this book have been ruminating since I was a teenager, and even before, but the focus of the book came into existence when I began to get to know people on street outreach eight years ago." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

Joanna Cockerline's novel, Still, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Joanna is a a CBC Literary Awards prizewinner who has been published in national and international journals and magazi...

Giller Spotlight: Emma Knight

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 4d

"I was looking out at the forest and still, peaceful lake when a nineteen-year-old Englishman started talking in my head. He had a kind of melancholy drawl, and he was addressing someone called Pen. I scribbled what they were saying to each other in my notebook." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

Emma Knight's novel, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Emma (she/her) is an author, journalist and entrepreneur. She has an MA in Journalism and an ...

Giller Spotlight: Fanny Britt

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 5d

Set an alarm! On Monday, October 6, at 10 a.m. ET, we will announce the 2025 Giller Prize shortlist. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we share the news! gillerprize.ca/newsletter #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 5d

"Many authors inspire all my books and plays...but for this book, of course I was very inhabited by Virgina Woolf’s stream of consciousness, as well as Quebec giant Robert Lalonde’s lucid and loving books." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction

Fanny Britt's novel, Sugaring Off, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Fanny is a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards, a Li...

Giller Spotlight: Mona Awad

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 6d

"After I wrote Bunny, I missed the world of it profoundly. I always longed to return. I knew there was more I wanted to say about the life of a story and what we owe that life. About who gets to tell stories." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit

Mona Awad's novel, We Love You, Bunny, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Mona is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She ...

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 7d

Join us on Oct 21 at 6 p.m. for #BookTalk with Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Tickets include:
📚 A copy of Fall on Your Knees
🥐 A pastry & hot beverage
🍷 A glass of wine
✍️ Audience Q&A, and the chance to have your book signed.

Tickets are limited! Purchase yours here: gillerprize.ca/booktalk

Giller Spotlight: Eddy Boudel Tan

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 7d

"I’d been wanting to write a novel about being second-generation Canadian, the experience of feeling caught between cultures and expectations." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction

Eddy Boudel Tan's novel, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Eddy has been a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the ReLit Best Novel Award, and the Ferro-Gru...

Giller Spotlight: Kirti Bhadresa

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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 8d

"This book began as a list poem. Each line expanded into paragraphs, pages, and then, eventually, full stories. Each story was centred around a type of kitchen." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Kirti Bhadresa's short story collection, An Astonishment of Stars, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Kirti's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Fiddlehead, PrairieFire, The Qua...

Giller Spotlight: Souvankham Thammavongsa

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 8d

"After I finished writing How to Pronounce Knife, I was obsessed with the story I wrote in it titled “Mani Pedi.” I wanted to continue writing it and the novel became a spinoff from that." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction

Souvankham Thammavongsa's novel, Pick a Colour, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Souvankham is the author of four poetry books and the short story collection, How to Pronounce Knife, wi...

Giller Spotlight: Ian Williams

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 9d

"I have a soft spot for Gluten who appears in part 2 and is so much more than the himbo he seems to be. I’m also fond of the minor characters who died before the beginning of the novel, Beckett’s mother and his dog, PointFive." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

Ian Williams' novel, You've Changed, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Ian is the award-winning author of seven acclaimed books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. His debut novel, Repro...

Giller Spotlight: Otoniya J. Okot Bitek

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 9d

ONE WEEK! 📚🎉

On October 6 at 10 a.m. ET, we will announce the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist! Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when we share the news. gillerprize.ca/newsletter/ #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

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Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 10d

"I read as part of my job, but also to be exposed to the imagination of writers that invite us to think expansively. Thankfully, Canadian writers come from so many different backgrounds and have so many entry points to read from, and I’m grateful for that." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

Otoniya J. Okot Bitek's novel, We, The Kindling has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Otoniya writes poetry and fiction. Her first collection, 100 Days, won the 2017 IndieFab Book of the Yea...

Giller Spotlight: Amanda Leduc

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 12d

"Wild Life began as a short story, itself inspired by a short story called The Debutante, by the English-Mexican surrealist author Leonora Carrington." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature

Amanda Leduc's novel, Wild Life, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Amanda is a disabled writer whose most recent novel, The Centaur’s Wife, is “an exquisite magical world, perfectly rend...

Giller Spotlight: Emma Donoghue

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 13d

"Trains have been associated with the books we read on them since the start, and I was very aware that The Paris Express would be my attempt to contribute to that long literary tradition." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit

Emma Donoghue's novel, The Paris Express, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Emma is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Room sold almost three million copies, won the Rogers Writer...

Giller Spotlight: Holly Kennedy

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 14d

"I wrote the first 30 pages of The Sideways Life of Denny Voss at a writer’s retreat in 2010 and immediately fell in love with Denny. He was stubborn and funny, and he had an undefinable charm. I couldn’t stop thinking about him; I even dreamed about him." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

Holly Kennedy's novel, The Sideways Life of Denny Voss, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Holly was born and raised in Alberta, Canada. Today, she lives in the foothills of the Rocky Moun...

Giller Spotlight: Bindu Suresh

Giller Prize @gillerprize.bsky.social · 15d

"I started with the idea of a woman calling a man from her past to ask for a favour. I knew their relationship had been fraught and that there was an unwillingness or reticence on her part in having to ask him. This is still the first page of the novel." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...

Bindu Suresh's novel, The Road Between Us, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Bindu is the author of the novella 26 Knots (2019). A former journalist, she has written hundreds of articles...