Jasmine Sealy wins the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Jasmine Sealy wins the 2023 Amazon Canada First Novel Award, for her novel THE ISLAND OF FORGETTING.

Established in 1976, the First Novel Award program has launched the careers of some of Canada’s most beloved novelists. —Amazon Canada First Novel Award

Jury quote:

These six shortlisted books represent, to me, the beauty, breadth, innovation, risk, reckoning, and reinvention happening in Canadian literature right now. Each one is a tremendous achievement.
-Kim Fu, 2023 Adult First Novel category judge

The Amazon Canada First Novel Award is co-presented by The Walrus.

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