London-based playwright, director and writer Jordan Tannahill was nominated for his second novel The Listeners, about a high-school teacher in suburban America who starts hearing a low-level hum that only a few others can hear, and drives herself mad trying to find the source. The haunting novel tells the story of a Syrian boy, the sole survivor of a migrant ship that sinks off the coast of a fictional Greek island, and the teenage girl who tries to help him avoid living in limbo in a refugee camp. Toews, who grew up in the Mennonite community in Steinbach, Man., and lives in Toronto, was nominated in 2014 for All My Puny Sorrows (which won the 2014 Writers’ Trust fiction prize) and in 2004 for A Complicated Kindness (which won the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction).įormer Globe and M ail journalist Omar El Akkad, whose stunning debut novel, American War, won the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in 2018, made the shortlist with What Strange Paradise. 8, will be awarded $100,000, while the four runners-up get $10,000 each. The first-place winner, who will be announced at a scaled-back gala on Nov. The judges for Canada’s richest book prize announced their shortlist today, and two-time nominee Miriam Toews is in the running again for Fight Night, a novel about a pregnant, single actress raising her precocious nine-year-old daughter while taking care of her frail yet feisty mother.
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