This year’s Giller Jury — Giller-finalist Annabel Lyon, American author Howard Norman, and UK playwright and award-winning novelist Andrew O’Hagan — had to sort through a record number of submissions this year, to compile the longlist below.
Also — this was the first year the Giller Prize let the public choose a finalist, to be dubbed “The Readers’ Choice.” Fans submitted more than 4,000 endorsements for their favourite 2011 works of fiction. This year’s Readers’ Choice was Extensions by Myrna Day, a debut novel published by Newest Press.
In keeping with my statement that Biblioasis is the country’s goldmine for short fiction, you’ll note they’re on this list again for a short fiction title this year (The Meagre Tarmac) as they were last year for Light Lifting.
It’s no surprise that a few Atlantic greats, the vivacious Lynn Coady and the epic Wayne Johnston, and Marina Endicott (already a Giller finalist) are on this year’s longlist:
2011 Giller Prize Longlist
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