Five Little IndiansThe book, which follows a group of residential school survivors trying to forge new lives in Vancouver, was a Writers’ Trust runner-up and is now vying for the Governor General’s fiction prize.Butter Honey Pig BreadThe intergenerational tale of three Nigerian women is also a Governor General’s fiction finalist and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.
Brampton, Ont.-based Jael Richardson, executive director of the Festival of Literary Diversity, is nominated for her dystopian taleToronto’s Marlowe Granados also scored a nod for her summer-set romp in New York City,Bergland, Ont.-raised John Elizabeth Stintzi, who won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers in 2019, is in running for “Vanishing Monuments,” from Arsenal Pulp Press, about a non-binary photographer who reconnects with their mother who has dementia.
Established in 1976, previous winners of the First Novel Award include Michael Ondaatje, W.P. Kinsella, Nino Ricci, David Bezmozgis, Andre Alexis and Madeleine Thien.
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