The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has announced its longlist for 2024. Authors such as Rebecca Makkai and C Pam Zhang are among the nominees for the prestigious prize, the largest literary award in the English language for non-binary and female authors of novels, short story collections and graphic novels, according to a statement shared with PEOPLE. This year’s nominees were chosen by jury president Jen Sookfong Lee, Laila Lalami, Claire Messud, Dolen Perkins-Valdez and Eden Robinson. “The jury for this year’s Carol Shields Award is very pleased to share this exceptional and diverse longlist,” Lee says in a statement shared with PEOPLE. “All authors have written extraordinary works of fiction that illuminate who we are—our histories, flaws, ambitions, and loves—and who we might be. Congratulations to all the shortlisted writers and their publishers.”
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Nominated for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Courtesy of the Carol Shields Award for Fiction
Established in 2020, the award is named after Carol Shields, author of over 20 books, including the 1993 Stone diaries, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1995, the Governor General’s Award in 1993, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Prize winners will receive $150,000 and a stay at the Fogo Island Inn. Four finalists will receive $12,500 each. In the event that the translated work wins the award, $100,000 will be awarded to the author and $50,000 to the translator.When we were sisters Fatimah Asghar won the award in 2023, and the finalists were among them Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, What we fed the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, Sleeping car carrier by Suzette Mayr and Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin.
The shortlist for the 2024 award will be announced on April 9th and the winner will be announced at a live event in Ontario on May 13th.
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See the full shortlist for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction below: Cocktail: Stories by Lisa Alward (Biblioasis)Birnam Wood: A Novel by Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)Dances: a novel by Nicole Cuffy (One World)Daughter: Roman by Claudia Dey (Doubleday Canada)Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote (SJP Lit)
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Nominated for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Courtesy of the Carol Shields Award for Fiction
A night without a brother by VV Ganeshananthan (Random House)Between two months by Aisha Abdel Gawad (Doubleday)Prey: a novel author Tania James (Alfred A. Knopf)You watched from the sand: short stories author Juliana Lamy (Red Hen Press)Future Catherine Leroux, translated by Susan Ouriou (Biblioasis)
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Nominated for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
Courtesy of the Carol Shields Award for Fiction
I have some questions for you: the novel by Rebecca Makkai (Viking)The history of burning: a novel Janika Oz (McClelland & Stewart)Council of Puppets: A Novel Mona Susan Power (Mariner Books)Chrysalis: Stories author: Anuja Varghese (House of Anansi)The land of honey and milk: a novel by C Pam Zhang (Riverhead Books)
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