Women dominate the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize short list, announced Monday morning at a reception at the Art Gallery of Ontario hosted by CBC Radio’s Matt Galloway. Of the six finalists, five are women with Gary Barwin, author of Yiddish for Pirates, the sole male finalist for the prestigious prize. There’s an extra nominee from the usual five; jury chair Lawrence Hill told the Star he and the other jurors “just felt that five wasn’t enough to contain our enthusiasm so we spilled over to six.”Jack Rabinovitch, who founded the award to honour his late wife, Doris Giller, a former books editor at the Toronto Star, joked afterward they were only allowed “to pick one winner.”The shortlisted nominees were culled from the 12-author long list announced on Sept. 7. Those, in turn, were chosen from a field of 161 titles submitted by 69 publisher imprints.

Source: thestar September 26, 2016 16:03 UTC