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Submitted by Grace on April 12, 2016 - 10:57am
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The 2016 Griffin Prize shortlists were announced today, with nominees announced for both the international and Canadian prizes. The Canadian shortlist is particularly interesting, featuring both a book in translation and a debut collection.

The $65,000 awards will be presented on June 2, 2016. There will also be a reading featuring all the nominated authors on June 1, at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.

The 2016 Griffin Prize International Shortlist

  • Norman Dubie for The Quotations of Bone (Copper Canyon Press)
  • Joy Harjo for Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (W.W. Norton & Company)
  • Don Paterson for 40 Sonnets (Faber & Faber)
  • Rowan Ricardo Phillips for Heaven (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

    • The 2016 Griffin Prize Canadian Shortlist

  • Ulrikka S. Gernes and translators Per Brask and Patrick Friesen for Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments (Brick Books)
  • Liz Howard for Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent (McClelland & Stewart)
  • Soraya Peerbaye for Tell: poems for a girlhood (Pedlar Press)

    • The jury this year consists of British poet Alice Oswald, American poet Tracy K. Smith and Canada’s own Adam Sol. The jurors read over 600 books of poetry while selecting the shortlist, from over 40 countries.

    You can get to know finalist Ulrikka S. Gernes here on Open Book: check out her Proust Questionnaire, and stay tuned to Open Book for more book award news!

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    The Mysteries of Radio

    Back in fall, my book Dust City was nominated for the 2012 Red Maple Award, part of Ontario's Forest of Reading Program. A couple months later, one of the organizers contacted the nominees with an unexpected proposition.

    "We would like to see if a few of you could be voice recorded," she wrote in an email, "for a commercial" to be played on an Ottawa radio station. I agreed, of course. (How often do you get to make a radio ad?)

    A few days later, I drove up to a grey, anonymous, commercial park in the northern netherburbs of Toronto. There I met some of the folks at Sky Words, a recording studio that specializes in "aerial advertising."

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