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The long list for the Giller Prize has been announced. Additionally, the prize has increased for the winner at $100,000 (thus making this the richest fiction prize in the country) and each of the four finalists will be awarded $10,000 each. The longlist is:
- Arjun Basu, Waiting for the Man (ECW Press)
- David Bezmogis, The Betrayers (HarperCollins Canada)
- Rivka Galchen, American Innovations (HarperCollins Canada)
- Frances Itani, Tell (HarperCollins Canada)
- Jennifer LoveGrove, Watch How We Walk (ECW)
- Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Random House Canada)
- Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday Canada)
- Heather O’Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (HarperCollins Canada)
- Kathy Page, Paradise and Elsewhere (John Metcalf Books/Biblioasis)
- Claire Holden Rothman, My October (Penguin Canada)
- Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (Knopf Canada)
- Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin Rao (Random House Canada)
The short list will be announced October 6/14. The gala to announce the winner will be held in Toronto November 6/14 and will likely be aired live again.
