Katie Kitamura, author of Audition, in London in November, 2025.Alberto Pezzali/The Associated Press
Books by Amanda Leduc, Megha Majumdar and Katie Kitamura are among the 15 titles longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction.
The US$150,000 award is the world’s largest literary purse for English-language books by women and non-binary writers, and it’s open to American and Canadian authors.
Hamilton-based Leduc made the list for her novel Wild Life, while Majumdar is longlisted for A Guardian and a Thief and Kitamura’s book Audition is in the running.
Also on the long list are The Edge of Water by Olufunke Grace Bankole, Sea, Poison by Caren Beilin and milktooth by Jaime Burnet of Halifax.
Suddenly Light by Toronto’s Nina Dunic is longlisted, along with Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards, Hellions by Julia Elliott and Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma.
Rounding out the long list are The White Hot by Quiara Alegría Hudes, Cannon by Montreal-based Lee Lai, The Morgue Keeper by Ruyan Meng, The Sea Gives Up the Dead by Molly Olguin and Lion by Sonya Walger.
The short list is due to be announced April 21, and the prize will be handed out at a ceremony in Toronto on June 2.