The longlist has been chosen for the 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which honors works by women and non-binary writers published in the U.S. and Canada. The shortlist will be announced April 3 and the winner on May 1. The winner receives $150,000 and a five-night stay at Fogo Island Inn; the four finalists receive $12,500 each. See the 15-book longlist here.
Jury chair Diana Abu-Jaber said, "Each of these works is extraordinary and original, showing us the path forward, out of suppression, into humanity and liberation."
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A five-book shortlist has been released for the C$50,000 (about US$34,885) Lionel Gelber Prize, which recognizes "the world's best book on international affairs published in English." The winner will be named March 19, and take part in a hybrid event hosted by the University of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy on April 9. This year's Lionel Gelber finalists are:
Dollars and Dominion: U.S. Bankers and the Making of a Superpower by Mary Bridges
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll
The Good Allies: How Canada and the United States Fought Together to Defeat Fascism during the Second World War by Tim Cook
To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement by Benjamin Nathans
To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power by Sergey Radchenko
"The jury has chosen five exceptional books that explore history in ways that are critical to our understanding of current geopolitics," said Judith Gelber, chair of the Lionel Gelber Prize board. "These authors have each revealed new ways to think about the intersection of economics, foreign policy and international cooperation."