(One might well ask why this doesn’t happen a lot more often with an award that includes all Canadian fiction in its purview one will indeed do just that, in a near-future Gazette books column.) The last-named was a rare case of a translated work - the story collection, published in French as Le mur mitoyen in 2013, was rendered in English by Montreal translator Lazer Lederhendler - receiving a Giller shortlist nod. She taught me how to be kind and brave.”Īlso shortlisted for Canada’s most prestigious and lucrative literary prize was Montreal-born Mona Awad for 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl Gary Barwin for Yiddish for Pirates Emma Donoghue for The Wonder Zoe Whittall for The Best Kind of People, and Montrealer Catherine Leroux for The Party Wall. “I wish my mother was here,” she also said. In her acceptance speech, she thanked her “moving and inspiring” fellow nominees, and her partner Rawi Hage. Nevertheless, the Giller win makes Do Not Say We Have Nothing the undisputed Canadian book of the moment, and Thien the consensus star. Many thought it would also win the Man Booker Prize, but it lost out to Paul Beatty’s The Sellout, the first American winner since that prize expanded its mandate beyond the Commonwealth and Ireland to include all English-language books. The Montreal-based writer’s fifth book, an epic work spanning several turbulent decades in an extended musical family in 20th-century China, has already achieved major success, having won the Governor General’s Literary Award last month. The announcement was made at the Gillers’ annual televised gala in Toronto Monday night. Madeleine Thien has won the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her novel Do Not Say We Have Nothing. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through our links on this page.
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