Eleanor Catton among 3 Canadian authors shortlisted for $204K Carol Shields Prize

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Birnam Wood is a book by New Zealand author Eleanor Catton.

Claudia Dey and Janika Oza are the other Canadian finalists. The prize celebrates fiction by women and non-binary authors.Eleanor Catton is among the five North American authors shortlisted for the second iteration of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.

The power of being a girl dad, Claudia Dey Examines the father daughter relationship in her novel Daughter Planning for the prize began back in 2012 after Swan participated in a discussion of the status of women in writing on a panel that included Kate Mosse, who established the U.K. Women's Prize for Fiction and Australian writer Gail Jones. It was moderated by Shields's daughter Anne Giardini.

 

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