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A baker’s dozen of novelists have made the 2024 Booker Prize long list, including two with Canadian links.
The list, which was revealed on July 30, includes Claire Messud’s novel This Strange Eventful History, which was published in Canada in May. Messud, who was born in Connecticut, went to the University of Toronto, and her mother was born in Canada.
Toronto poet and novelist Anne Michaels also landed on the list for her third and most recent novel, Held, which was published in November 2023.
Among the other authors on the long list, which judging chair Edmund de Wall called “a cohort of global voices,” are American Cheyenee/Arapahi novelist Tommy Orange for Wandering Stars, Hisham Matar for My Friends, Dutch author Yael van der Wouden for her novel The Safekeep and Percival Everett for his novel James.
The short list will be revealed Sept. 16, with the winner of the £50,000 prize (approximately CAD$88,900) announced at a ceremony in London on Nov. 12. For a complete list of the longlisted authors see wfp.to/CtL.
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Cousins Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki went three for three at the 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards (or Eisners, for short).
The winners of the Eisners were announced on July 26 at an event held during the wildly popular San Diego Comic Con. The Tamakis were nominated in the categories of best writer, best penciller/inker and best graphic album, and nabbed all three for their graphic novel Roaming, published in September 2023 by Montreal’s Drawn & Quarterly.
Sticking with Canadians, Toronto comic creator Ryan North also nabbed the Eisner for best publication for teens for Danger and Unknown Risks, illustrated by Erica Henderson and published in April 2023 by Penguin Workshop.
For a list of all the winners see wfp.to/Ctv.
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Winnipeg literary magazine Prairie Fire has announced its latest writing competition, with $3,750 available to be won across three different categories.
Bola Opaleke will judge the poetry competition, Lauren Carter will judge the short-fiction contest and Jenny Heijun Wills will oversee the creative non-fiction contest. The top prize for each category is $1,250.
Each poetry entry may include up to three poems, while short-fiction and creative non-fiction entries can be up to 5,000 words long. The entry fee is $34, which includes a one-year subscription to Prairie Fire.
The deadline to submit is Nov. 30 — for all the details see prairiefire.ca/contests.
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Iconic singer Cher will release the first of a two-part memoir in November through Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Cher: The Memoir, Part One will follow the 78-year-old’s life from childhood through to her marriage and divorce from Sonny Bono. The first volume is slated to weigh in at a hefty 480 pages, with the second volume set to be published in 2025.
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A pair of legendary nonagenarian authors shuffled off this mortal coil over the past week, with tributes pouring in across the literary world.
On July 27, Irish novelist and memoirist Edna O’Brien died at age 93 after a long illness. Among her best-known work was the groundbreaking 1960 novel The Country Girls as well as House of Isolation, her short-story collection Saints and Sinners and her 2012 memoir Country Girl.
On July 30, publisher Penguin Random House confirmed that 92-year-old author Francine Pascal died two days prior.
The New York-born author created the Sweet Valley High series of books, writing or contributing to more than 150 titles in the series (which sold more than 200 million copies).
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