Miriam Toews & Katherena Vermette among five finalists for $60K Atwood Gibson Prize for Canada's top fiction
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Miriam Toews and Katherena Vermette are two of the finalists on the 2021 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Prize for Fiction.
The $60,000 award annually honours the best novel or short story collection published in Canada.
Toews is a finalist for her novel Fight Night, while Vermette is nominated for her novel The Strangers. Both books are also on the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist.
The other three finalists are Rivka Galchen for the novel Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, Alix Ohlin for the short story collection We Want What We Want and Guy Vanderhaeghe for the novel August into Winter.
This year's five finalists are selected by the jury from 130 titles submitted by 60 publishers. The jury is composed of Canadian fiction writers Rebecca Fisseha, Michelle Good and Steven Price.
Each finalist will receive $5,000.
Recently renamed, the fiction prize honours Canadian literary icons Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson, two of the five co-founders of Writers' Trust of Canada.
