Suzette Mayr is the winner of the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Calgary-based Mayr won for for her novel “The Sleeping Car Porter,” from Coach House Books, which follows a queer, Black sleeping car porter making a treacherous trip from Montreal to Vancouver in 1929. She was previously longlisted for the prize in 2011 for her novel “Monoceros.”“I think I’m officially done with my feelings of imposter syndrome as a writer,” Mayr said through tears. In an interview with the Star a short time later, she said that “writing is such a solitary act. I’ve written five books before this that have gotten a little bit of attention but not a ton.

Source: thestar November 08, 2022 08:44 UTC