Trillium Book Award names 2017 short list

TORONTO — Six books and three poetry titles have been shortlisted in English-language categories for the 2017 Trillium Book Award celebrating Ontariobased writers.

In the book category, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Andre Alexis is a finalist for and Kamal Al-Solaylee made the Trillium short list for It is also a finalist for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. Danila Botha was chosen for and Leesa Dean for Rounding out the short are Susan Holbrook for and Melanie Mah for list English-language poetry finalists are Laurie D. Graham for Meaghan and Dane Strimas for Swan for

The five shortlisted Frenchlanguage books are:

• Jean Boisjoli, • Louis • Eric Mathieu, • L’Allier, Paul-Francois Sylvestre, • Michele Vinet, The French-language finalists for children’s literature are:

• Pierre-Luc Belanger, • Gilles Dubois, • Daniel Marchildon,

Recipients of the Trillium Book Award receive $20,000, and their respective publishers receive $2,500 to promote the winning titles. All finalists receive a $500 honorarium.

Poetry and French-language children’s literature winners each receive $10,000, and their publisher $2,000 for promotion of the titles. Finalists for these awards also receive a $500 honorarium.

Previous winners have included Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje and Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro.

This year’s winners will be announced in Toronto on June 20.