Being a Literary Prize Juror with Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Waubgeshig Rice, and Yasuko Thanh

Writers' Trust of Canada

English - November 09, 2020 13:05 - 47 minutes - 21.2 MB
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The Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize recognizes the Canadian writer of the year’s best novel or short story collection and rewards them with $50,000. The 2020 finalists were selected by a jury composed of writers Elisabeth de Mariaffi, Waubgeshig Rice, and Yasuko Thanh. Listen to them discuss what it was like to wade through 100+ books together and why they selected the five prize finalists they did.