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Cree author and lawyer Michelle Good, as shown in this handout image, continues to rack up nominations as a contender for the First Novel Award. Amazon Canada and the Walrus announced the six debut novelists in the running for the $60,000 prize Tuesday. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kent Wong Photography MANDATORY CREDIT May 04, 2021 - 9:02 AM
Cree author and lawyer Michelle Good continues to rack up nominations as a contender for the First Novel Award.
Amazon Canada and the Walrus announced the six debut novelists vying for the $60,000 prize Tuesday.
Good, who is from Red Pheasant Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, is shortlisted for Five Little Indians, from HarperCollins Publishers.
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The name change comes with a $10,000 increase in prize money, with future winners set to receive $60,000.
Atwood and Gibson, who were partners for more than a half-century until Gibson s death in 2019, were among the wordsmiths who co-founded the Writers Trust in 1976.
In a statement, playwright and fellow co-founder David Young says the prize is a perfect way to honour their commitment to Canada s literary culture.
Since 1997, the Writers Trust Fiction Prize has been handed out to the author of the year s best novel or short story collection.
Previous winners include Andre Alexis, Emma Donoghue, Lawrence Hill, Alice Munro and Austin Clarke.
Writers Trust renames fiction prize after co-founders and couple Atwood and Gibson
Margaret Atwood arrives on the red carpet for the 2019 Giller Prize before the gala ceremony in Toronto on November 18, 2019. The Writers Trust of Canada is renaming its annual fiction award after co-founders and literary power couple Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson. In a news release Wednesday, organizers announced that the prestigious honour will now be known as the Atwood Gibson Writers Trust Fiction Prize. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young January 27, 2021 - 3:32 AM
The Writers Trust of Canada is renaming its annual fiction award after co-founders and literary power couple Margaret Atwood and Graeme Gibson.