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Rawi Hage, Billy-Ray Belcourt and Sheila Heti Make the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize Long List
The jury read 138 books to choose 14 titles for the long list, one of which will win the $100,000 prize, one of the richest in Canadian literature / BY Kim Honey / September 6th, 2022
After reading 138 books this year, the Scotiabank Giller Prize judges have announced their long list for the $100,000 prize, stories they said demonstrated an “exceptional narrative energy and range.”
The announcement was streamed live on the Giller Prize Facebook page from St. John’s on Sept. 6, where last year’s winner, Omar El Akkad, acknowledged the prize “has changed the lives of countless winners for years and years, including my own.”
Since the former Globe and Mail reporter won for What Strange Paradise, a tale about a young Syrian boy who is the sole survivor of a migrant ship that sinks off the coast of a Greek island, he landed on the Maclean’s 2022 Power List, was named the 2022 writer-in-residence at his alma mater, Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., and wrote a sci-fi story on a terrifying vision of the future of work for an anthology called Terraform: Watch/Worlds/Burn.
Here are the 14 titles chosen for the long list by the jury, made up of Canadian authors Casey Plett, Kaie Kellough and Waubgeshig Rice and American authors Katie Kitamura and Scott Spencer:
Billy-Ray Belcourt A Minor Chorus
André Forget In the City of Pigs
Kim Fu Lesser-Known Monsters of the 21st Century
Rawi Hage Stray Dogs
Sheila Heti Pure Colour
Brian Thomas Isaac All the Quiet Places
Conor Kerr Avenue of Champions
Suzette Mayr The Sleeping Car Porter
Noor Naga If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English
André Narbonne Lucien & Olivia
Dimitri Nasrallah Hotline
Fawn Parker What We Both Know
Tsering Yangzom Lama We Measure The Earth With Our Bodies
Antoine Wilson for Mouth to Mouth
The short list will be announced Sept. 27, with the Giller Prize awarded at a Nov. 7 gala that will be televised on CBC.