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The Giller Prize announced the short list for the prestigious award on Monday.
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Good is nominated for “Eliza Sunshine,” a multi-generational family saga that follows three generations of Cree women and the storytelling tradition that connects them.
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The Cree author, lawyer and activist had previously been longlisted for her 2020 novel, “Five Little Indians.”
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author → longliste → novel
Also shortlisted is Toronto-based Patmeena Sabit for her debut national bestseller “Good People,” which tells the story of how a family’s private tragedy thrusts them into the court of public opinion.
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tragedy → shortlist → opinion
Prince Edward Island-based author Nicholas Herring is nominated for his second novel “Your Breath in Charcoal” which follows a directionless young Islander who drives to New Brunswick to pick up an acquaintance’s brother from a mental health hospital.
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Herring previously won the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for his debut novel “Some Hellish.”
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Rounding out the contenders are Regina-based Tara Gereaux for “Wild People Quiet” which explores the repercussions of a woman’s decision to hide her Métis identity while living in a small prairie town in the 1940s and Vancouver-based Nazanine Hozar for “The Small Ones,” which is about children caught up in a military insurgence along the Iran–Iraq border in the early 1980s.
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The Giller Prize is Canada’s largest award for a work of fiction, handing out $100,000 to the winner and $10,000 to the finalists.
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The Giller has faced controversy and financial uncertainty in recent years.
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In 2023, hundreds of book workers — including past winners — boycotted the award, in part objecting to its previous title sponsor Scotiabank and its ties to a subsidiary that held shares in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturer.
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The subsidiary has since divested from the arms company.
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The Giller and Scotiabank parted ways in February 2025.
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The boycott ended earlier this year.
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In September, the Giller announced new funding from Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation, which would donate $4 million to the prize in a multi-year gift, in addition to $1 million the Weston family quietly gave a year ago, when the award was in dire financial straits.
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In response to recent backlash, the organization created the Giller Prize Writers’ Circle, a new advisory council that it said will work to support the literary community.
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A nine-member jury panel of independent booksellers representing all five regions of Canada selected this year’s short list from an initial list of more than 140 titles.
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This year’s Giller Prize is set to be awarded on Nov. 16 during a televised ceremony hosted by Canadian comedian Rick Mercer.
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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 5, 2026.
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