Billy-Ray Belcourt and Fawn Parker are longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize

On September 6 2022, 2021 Giller Prize winner Omar ElAkkad (SON OF ELSEWHERE) announced the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist nominees. Among the 14 longlist nominees are A MINOR CHORUS by Billy-Ray Belcourt and WHAT WE BOTH KNOW by Fawn Parker.

About this year’s nominees, the Giller jury wrote:

“As the world roils and rolls on in this strange new decade, the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury can report that Canadian fiction is only becoming more bountiful, energetic, meaningful, funny, and moving. The jury’s discussions and debates throughout the year were nuanced and spirited, but most of all we were continuously in awe of the cornucopia presented to us. We are proud to showcase a longlist of fourteen outstanding titles that are sweeping in scope, touch all corners of life, and which provide pleasure and stimulation as well as urgency and depth. To the nominated authors, it is our delight and honour to say: Congratulations, and thank you.”

Read more about the Giller Prize and this year’s longlisters here.