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CBC
06-05-2025
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Canisia Lubrin and Matthew Walsh among finalists for 2025 Trillium Book Awards
Canisia Lubrin and Matthew Walsh are among the finalists for the 2025 Trillium Book Awards presented by Ontario Creates. Established in 1987, the prize annually recognizes the best book and best poetry collection from writers in Ontario. The winners in both the English and French categories of the Trillium Book Award will receive $20,000, while the winner of the poetry category will receive $10,000. This year, the category for best book of children's literature in French will also be awarded. Lubrin is shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Code Noir, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction prize and won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The Code Noir, or the Black Code, was a set of 59 articles decreed by Louis XVI in 1685 which regulated ownership of slaves in all French colonies. In Code Noir, Lubrin reflects on these codes to examine the legacy of enslavement and colonization — and the inherent power of Black resistance. Lubrin is a Canadian writer, editor and academic who was born in St. Lucia and currently based in Whitby, Ont. Her debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Pat Lowther Award and was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. Her poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It also won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for poetry. Walsh is shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for poetry for Terrarium. Terrarium is a poetry collection that explores queer identity and depression using a conversational writing style. Raw, confessional and often messy, the voice has a quality of intimacy and shared secrets. 35 books for Pride month by writers in Canada Walsh is a poet known for their debut book These are not the potatoes of my youth, which was a finalist for the Trillium and Gerald Lampert Awards. Walsh has previously contributed poetry to publications like The Malahat Review and Arc. They are now based in Toronto. The 2025 CBC Poetry Prize is accepting submissions! Other notable writers on the shortlists include Maurice Vellekoop and Faith Arkorful. Vellekoop's I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together is a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, which was also shortlisted for the 2025 Doug Wright Award for best Canadian comic and won the 2024 Toronto Book Award. I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together depicts his intense childhood and difficult young adulthood as a young gay person in a strict Christian household. Set in Toronto from the 1970s, Vellekoop begins to see his relationships with his mother and father fracture. As he ventures out on his own, he explores his passion for art and is set on finding romance and is met with violent attacks and the anxiety surrounding the AIDS era. Maurice Vellekoop wins $10K Toronto Book Award for graphic memoir I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together Vellekoop is a Toronto-born writer and artist. He has been an illustrator for the past three decades, including for companies like Air Canada and Bush Irish Whiskey. He is also the author of A Nut at the Opera. Arkorful is nominated for the Trillium Book Award for poetry for their debut collection, The Seventh Town of Ghosts. The Seventh Town of Ghosts explores these titular towns through songs that help readers grapple with the challenges of existence and independence. The book offers insight into the power of connection, tenderness and the human spirit. Arkorful has had her work published in Guts, Peach Mag, Prism International, Hobart, Without/pretend, The Puritan and Canthius, among others. She was a semi-finalist in the 2019 92Y Discovery Contest. Faith was born in Toronto, where she still resides. In 2020, she was shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize. The full shortlists for the 2025 Trillium Awards are below. Trillium Book Award: Wild Houses by Colin Barrett My Fighting Family: Borders and Bloodlines and the Battles That Made Us by Morgan Campbell Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin Who Will Bury You? And Other Stories by Chido Muchemwa I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together by Maurice Vellekoop Trillium Book Award for Poetry: The Seventh Town of Ghosts by Faith Arkorful DADDY by Jake Byrne Terrarium by Matthew Walsh Prix Trillium: Céline au Congo by Aristote Kavungu Toronto jamais bleue by Marie-Hélène Larochelle Le prince africain, le traducteur et le nazi by Didier Leclair Un lourd prix à payer by Claire Ménard-Roussy Nickel City Fifs : Une épopée queer sudburoise sur fond de trous by Alex Tétreault Prix du livre jeunesse Trillium: Rose du désert by Michèle Laframboise Le roi Poubelle by Eudes La Roche-Francoeur Le bonnet magique by Mireille Messier The winners will be announced on June 18, 2025. Last year's winners were Nina Dunic for The Clarion and A. Light Zachary for More Sure.
CBC
02-05-2025
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- CBC
Ontario writer Canisia Lubrin wins $208K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Canadian writer Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The $150,000 U.S. ($207,582.64 Cdn) prize recognizes the best fiction book by a woman or non-binary writer from the U.S. and Canada. It is presently the largest international literary prize for women writers. The winner will also receive a five-night residency at the Fogo Island Inn in Newfoundland. Lubrin is honoured for her book Code Noir, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction prize. The Code Noir, or the Black Code, was a set of 59 articles decreed by Louis XVI in 1685 which regulated ownership of slaves in all French colonies. In Code Noir, Lubrin reflects on these codes to examine the legacy of enslavement and colonization — and the inherent power of Black resistance. The inherent power of resistance: How Canisia Lubrin's debut novel Code Noir reflects on postcolonial agency Lubrin is a Canadian writer, editor and academic who was born in St. Lucia and currently based in Whitby, Ont. Her debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Pat Lowther Award and was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. Her poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It also won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for poetry. The 2025 jury was chaired by American writer Diana Abu-Jaber. The other jury members are Canadian authors Tessa McWatt, Kim Fu and Norma Dunning and American author Jeanne Thornton. " Code Noir contains multitudes. Its characters inhabit multi-layered landscapes of the past, present and future, confronting suffering, communion, and metamorphosis. Canisia Lubrin's prose is polyphonic; the stories invite you to immerse yourself in both the real and the speculative, in the intimate and in sweeping moments of history," said the jury. "Riffing on the Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes the legacies of slavery, colonialism, and violence. This is a virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction." The four remaining finalists included Pale Shadows by Canadian novelist Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins, along with American titles All Fours by Miranda July, Liars by Sarah Manguso and River East, River West by Aube Rey Lescure. They received $12,500 U.S. ($17,301.28 Cdn). The four finalists and the winner will be invited to participate in a group retreat residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction was created to recognize novels, short story collections, and graphic novels written by women and non-binary authors and published in the U.S. and Canada. Planning for the prize began back in 2012 after Canadian author Susan Swan participated in a discussion of the status of women in writing on a panel that included Kate Mosse, who established the U.K. Women's Prize for Fiction and Australian writer Gail Jones. It was moderated by Shields's daughter Anne Giardini. Looking at statistics generated by arts organizations like VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and Canadian Women in Literary Arts (CWILA), Swan found that women writers were being reviewed in publications far less than their male counterparts. The historical numbers for major literary awards are particularly dismal — only 17 women have won the Nobel Prize in Literature since 1909 and about a third of the winners of Canada's oldest literary prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction, have been women. Shields, the prize's namesake, was one of Canada's best-known writers.
Winnipeg Free Press
02-05-2025
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- Winnipeg Free Press
Canisia Lubrin wins Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for ‘Code Noir'
Canisia Lubrin has won the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction for her book 'Code Noir.' The Whitby, Ont.-based author will receive US$150,000. The award is the largest English-language literary prize for women and non-binary authors and is open to Canadians and Americans. Another Canadian entry among the five shortlisted books was 'Pale Shadows,' written by Dominique Fortier and translated by Rhonda Mullins. Jury members praised Lubrin's prose as 'polyphonic,' calling 'Code Noir' a 'virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction.' Lubrin's other work has been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, Windham-Campbell prize for poetry and more. This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 1, 2025.
Yahoo
02-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Announces 2025 Winner and $150,000 Award Recipient (Exclusive)
The winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction has been revealed. PEOPLE can exclusively report that Canisia Lubrin was named the winner of the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction at a live event at the Chicago History Museum on Thursday, May 1. The award recognizes novels, short story collections and graphic novels written by women and non-binary authors published in the United States and Canada. It is the largest English-language literary prize in the world that's awarded to women and non-binary authors. Lubrin was honored for her work on Code Noir, published by Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press. She will receive $150,000 and a five-night stay at the Fogo Island Inn in recognition of her accomplishments. Related: Miranda July and Rachel Kushner Among Carol Shields 2025 Prize Longlist Nominees — See the Full List! (Exclusive) As the author of books such as Voodoo Hypothesis and The Dyzgraphxst, Lubrin has previously been recognized with the Griffin Poetry Prize, OCM Bocas Prize and the Writers' Trust of Canada Rising Stars award, among others. Conde Noir is Lubrin's debut work of fiction. The jury — made up of jury chair Diana Abu-Jaber, Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt and Jeanne Thornton — praised the book in a joint statement shared with PEOPLE. 'Code Noir contains multitudes," their statement said. "Its characters inhabit multi-layered landscapes of the past, present and future, confronting suffering, communion and metamorphosis." "Canisia Lubrin's prose is polyphonic; the stories invite you to immerse yourself in both the real and the speculative, in the intimate and in sweeping moments of history. Riffing on the Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes the legacies of slavery, colonialism and violence," the statement continued. "This is a virtuoso collection that breaks new ground in short fiction." Related: Miranda July, Sarah Manguso Among 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Shortlist (Exclusive) Alexandra Skoczylas, CEO of the Carol Shields Prize Foundation, also offered her "warmest congratulations to Canisia Lubrin on her win for Code Noir." 'It is a groundbreaking work of fiction selected from an incredibly strong shortlist," she said. Related: V. V. Ganeshananthan Named Winner of the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction Finalists for the prize included Dominique Fortier and Rhonda Mullins (translator), Miranda July, Sarah Manguso, and Aube Rey Lescure. The four finalists will each receive $12,500. Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. The finalists, along with Lubrin, are all invited to participate in a group retreat residency in the Leighton Artist Studios, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. Read the original article on People
CBC
06-03-2025
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- CBC
Canisia Lubrin and Anne Fleming among longlisted Canadian authors for $216K Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
Writers Canisia Lubrin and Anne Fleming are among the five Canadian authors longlisted for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The Carol Shields Prize awards $150,000 U.S. (approx. $215,944 Cdn) to a single work of fiction by a woman or non-binary writer. The prize is open to English-language books published in the U.S. or Canada, including translations from Spanish and French. Writers must be citizens or permanent residents of Canada or the U.S. Lubrin is longlisted for her book Code Noir, which was also shortlisted for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Fiction prize. The Code Noir, or the Black Code, was a set of 59 articles decreed by Louis XVI in 1685 which regulated ownership of slaves in all French colonies. In Code Noir, Lubrin reflects on these codes to examine the legacy of enslavement and colonization — and the inherent power of Black resistance. The inherent power of resistance: How Canisia Lubrin's debut novel Code Noir reflects on postcolonial agency Lubrin is a Canadian writer, editor and academic who was born in St. Lucia and currently based in Whitby, Ont. Her debut poetry collection Voodoo Hypothesis was longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, the Pat Lowther Award and was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award. Her poetry collection The Dyzgraphxst won the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. It also won the 2021 Griffin Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2020 Governor General's Literary Prize for poetry. Fleming is recognized for Curiosities, which was on the 2024 Giller Prize shortlist. Curiosities centres around an amateur historian who discovers an obscure memoir from 1600s England that explores a love that could not be explained in those times. Weaving together different fictional accounts, the novel tells the life stories of Joan and Thomasina, the only two survivors of a village ravaged by the plague, and how they eventually find each other again. Thomasina, now Tom, navigates the world in boy's clothes and as a male, but faces a struggle when discovered, naked, by a member of the clergy. Anne Fleming's novel Curiosities transports readers to the plagues, witch hunts and love stories of the 1600s Fleming is an author based in Victoria. Her books include Pool-Hopping and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. She has also written a middle-grade novel, The Goat, which was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection. The other Canadian titles on the Carol Shields Prize longlist are Pale Shadows by Dominique Fortier, translated by Rhonda Mullins, Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo and Cicada Summer by Erica McKeen. The complete longlist is as follows: "It has been a joy and an honour to select these outstanding books for the Carol Shields Prize longlist," said jury chair Diana Abu-Jaber in a press release. "Each of these works is extraordinary and original, showing us the path forward, out of suppression, into humanity and liberation." The jury is rounded out by Canadian authors Tessa McWatt, Kim Fu and Norma Dunning and American author Jeanne Thornton. The shortlist will be announced on April 3 and the winner will be revealed on May 1. Each of the four finalists receives $12,500 U.S. (approx. $17,972 Cdn). The Carol Shields Prize was founded by Susan Swan, Janice Zawerbny and Don Oravec. Shields, the prize's namesake, was one of Canada's best-known writers.
