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"Eddy Boudel Tan’s THE TIGER AND THE COSMONAUT examines the complications inherent to immigration and assimilation within the contexts of sexuality and race in Canada’s rural and urban landscapes."

- Jury Citation
November 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
TIFA Presents: Between the Pages, an evening with the 2025 #GillerPrize finalists, is happening on November 12, at 7:30 p.m.

The event will take place at the Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles St W, Toronto).

Tickets are available at gillerprize.ca/btp.
November 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
"WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY is an unhinged waltz through the corridors of creative academia, blending satire and surreal magical chaos as artistic creations stumble through the night with axes and fall in love, frat parties end in murder, and creative jealousies fuel uncanny powers."

- Jury Citation
November 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Happy Halloween! 🎃
October 31, 2025 at 10:58 AM
On Tuesday, November 18, at 6 p.m., this year's #GillerPrize winner will be in conversation with Noah Richler at Union Hotel. Visit gillerprize.ca/booktalk to purchase your ticket! #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature #canadianfiction #fiction #bookclub #bookevent
October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The 2025 #GillerPrize winner will be announced on Monday, November 17.

📺 9 p.m. (11:30 p.m. AT, 12 a.m. NT) on CBC TV, CBC Gem, and
CBC’s YouTube channel.

📻 Listeners can tune in to a broadcast special on CBC Radio and CBC Listen.

#CravingCanLit #canlit #canadianliterature
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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"We Love You, Bunny," the newest novel from creative writing professor Mona Awad, is one of five books that have been shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. The $100,000 annual award recognizes the best in Canadian fiction.

@gillerprize.bsky.social #BookSky
The Giller Prize Proudly Presents its 2025 Shortlist
October 6, 2025 (Toronto, ON) – Five remarkable Canadian writers have been named to the 2025 Giller Prize Shortlist. Representing the boldness, inventiveness, and transformational power of Canadian…
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October 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Mona Awad's #1 National Bestselling novel, WE LOVE YOU, BUNNY, is a finalist for the 2025 #GillerPrize. #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature
October 24, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Attention #Toronto Booklovers!

TIFA Presents: Between the Pages, an evening with the 2025 #GillerPrize finalists, is happening on November 12, at 7:30 p.m.

The event will take place at the Isabel Bader Theatre (93 Charles St W, Toronto).

Tickets are available at gillerprize.ca/btp.
October 20, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Limited tickets remain for the Ann-Marie MacDonald #BookTalk on October 21 at Union Hotel.

Your ticket includes:
☕️ A pastry item & hot beverage
🍷 A glass of wine
📚 A copy of Fall on Your Knees + book signing

Purchase your ticket at gillerprize.ca/booktalk!

#GillerPrize #CravingCanLit
October 18, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hoping your long weekend has been full of time with family and friends, good food, and lots of reading! #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature
October 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
How many of these #GillerPrize-shortlisted titles have you read? #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature
October 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Congratulations to the authors on this year's Giller Prize shortlist, including AC affiliates @eddyboudeltan.bsky.social, @emmadonoghue.bsky.social & Souvankham Thammavongsa.
October 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Congratulations to the 2025 @gillerprize.bsky.social finalists. We can’t wait to hear from all five authors at #VWF2025 this month!

@eddyboudeltan.bsky.social
@emmadonoghue.bsky.social
Mona Awad
Emma Knight
Souvankham Thammavongsa

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The Giller Prize Proudly Presents its 2025 Shortlist
October 6, 2025 (Toronto, ON) – Five remarkable Canadian writers have been named to the 2025 Giller Prize Shortlist. Representing the boldness, inventiveness, and transformational power of Canadian li...
gillerprize.ca
October 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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@gillerprize.bsky.social just announced their shortlist for 2025. Am excited to pick these books for my next reading. Am starting with “We Love You, Bunny” by Mona Awad.

#gillerprize #gillerprize #weloveyoubunny #booksky #reading #books #canlit #canadianliterature
October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
One more sleep! We're announcing the 2025 #GillerPrize shortlist tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET.

Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we share the news! gillerprize.ca/newsletter

#CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianfiction #canadianliterature
October 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
"For years after my father’s death, I had not been able to write about him. Then, after writing Houyhnhnm, my memories of him came flooding back, altered and strange. Other Worlds, as a result, feels very personal." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit
Giller Spotlight: André Alexis
André Alexis' short story collection, Other Worlds, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. André Alexis is an author of novels, short stories, and plays. His 2015 novel, Fifteen Dogs, won the...
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October 5, 2025 at 7:51 PM
"Parts of this book have been ruminating since I was a teenager, and even before, but the focus of the book came into existence when I began to get to know people on street outreach eight years ago." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit
Giller Spotlight: Joanna Cockerline
Joanna Cockerline's novel, Still, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Joanna is a a CBC Literary Awards prizewinner who has been published in national and international journals and magazi...
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October 5, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"I was looking out at the forest and still, peaceful lake when a nineteen-year-old Englishman started talking in my head. He had a kind of melancholy drawl, and he was addressing someone called Pen. I scribbled what they were saying to each other in my notebook." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl...
Giller Spotlight: Emma Knight
Emma Knight's novel, The Life Cycle of the Common Octopus, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Emma (she/her) is an author, journalist and entrepreneur. She has an MA in Journalism and an ...
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October 4, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Set an alarm! On Monday, October 6, at 10 a.m. ET, we will announce the 2025 Giller Prize shortlist. Subscribe to our newsletter to be notified when we share the news! gillerprize.ca/newsletter #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit #canadianliterature
October 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
"Many authors inspire all my books and plays...but for this book, of course I was very inhabited by Virgina Woolf’s stream of consciousness, as well as Quebec giant Robert Lalonde’s lucid and loving books." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction
Giller Spotlight: Fanny Britt
Fanny Britt's novel, Sugaring Off, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Fanny is a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards, a Li...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"After I wrote Bunny, I missed the world of it profoundly. I always longed to return. I knew there was more I wanted to say about the life of a story and what we owe that life. About who gets to tell stories." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #GillerPrize #CravingCanLit #CanLit
Giller Spotlight: Mona Awad
Mona Awad's novel, We Love You, Bunny, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Mona is the bestselling author of the novels Rouge, All’s Well, Bunny, and 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl. She ...
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October 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Join us on Oct 21 at 6 p.m. for #BookTalk with Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Tickets include:
📚 A copy of Fall on Your Knees
🥐 A pastry & hot beverage
🍷 A glass of wine
✍️ Audience Q&A, and the chance to have your book signed.

Tickets are limited! Purchase yours here: gillerprize.ca/booktalk
October 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"I’d been wanting to write a novel about being second-generation Canadian, the experience of feeling caught between cultures and expectations." gillerprize.ca/giller-spotl... #CravingCanLit #canadianliterature #CanLit #canadianfiction
Giller Spotlight: Eddy Boudel Tan
Eddy Boudel Tan's novel, The Tiger and the Cosmonaut, has been longlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize. Eddy has been a finalist for the Edmund White Award, the ReLit Best Novel Award, and the Ferro-Gru...
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October 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM