Joel Thomas Hynes named to Giller Prize long-list
Newfoundland novelist Joel Thomas Hynes has been named to the long-list of nominees for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize.
The announcement was made Monday morning at The Rooms in St. John’s by last year’s winner, Madeline Thien.
The prestigious award, founded in 1994, highlights the best in Canadian fiction. The prize awards $100,000 to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English and $10,000 to each of the finalists.
Hynes, of Calvert — who didn’t attend the event — was chosen for his novel “We’ll All Be Burned in Our Beds Some Night,” published by Harperperennial, an imprint of Harpercollins Publishers Ltd.
Others named to the long-list are: David Chariandy (for his novel “Brother”), Rachel Cusk (“Transit”), David Demchuk (“The Bone Mother”), Andree A. Michaud (“Boundary”), Josip Novakovich (“Tumbleweed”), Ed O’loughlin (“Minds of Winter”), Zoey Leigh Peterson (“Next Year, For Sure”), Michael Redhill (“Bellevue Square”), Eden Robinson (“Son of Trickster”), Deborah Willis (“The Dark and Other Love Stories”) and Michelle Winters (“I am a Truck”).
The long-list was selected by a five-member jury panel comprised of Anita Rau Badami, Andre Alexis, Lynn Coady, Richard Beard and Nathan Englander. The shortlist will be announced in Toronto on Oct. 2.
The winner will be named on Nov. 20 at an event that will be aired on CBC.
The prize is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and was established by her husband, the late Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch, who died last month.