Kim Coleman Foote and V. V. Ganeshananthan Among Shortlist for 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction (Exclusive)

The Shortlist for The 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction is in!

A month after announcing the longlist, PEOPLE can exclusively announce the shortlist for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction honoring English-language literary novels, short story collections and graphic novels by women and non-binary authors.

Eleanor Catton, Claudia Dey, Kim Coleman Foote, V. V. Ganeshananthan and Janika Oza are the authors left vying for the honor, which includes an award of $150,000 and a residency at the Fogo Island Inn. The four finalists will receive $12,500 each.

The winner of the 2024 Prize will be announced during a live event hosted by Carol Shields Prize Foundation board director Natasha Trethewey in downtown Toronto on May 13.

The Carol Shields Award was created in 2020 and named for Carol Shields, an author of over 20 books who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize, the 1993 Governor General’s Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her 1993 novel, The Stone Diaries.

The winner of 2023's Carol Shields Award was When We Were Sisters by Fatimah Asghar.

Finalists included Brown Girls by Daphne Palasi Andreades, What We Fed to the Manticore by Talia Lakshmi Kolluri, The Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr and Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin.

See the full shortist for the 2024 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction below:

Birnam Wood: A Novel by Eleanor Catton (McClelland & Stewart)

Daughter: A Novel by Claudia Dey (Doubleday Canada)

Coleman Hill by Kim Coleman Foote (SJP Lit)

Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan (Random House)

A History of Burning: A Novel by Janika Oza (McClelland & Stewart)

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