


For this specific award, book completion rates, customer ratings and reviews were considered when selecting the shortlist titles.

You can check out the rest of the shortlist here.Īlso, if you’ve read any of these be sure to leave a review on book retailer sites like Amazon, Chapters/Indigo and Kobo. If you haven’t already, add these three books to your TBR. This is such a big award for Canadian debut authors and I’m especially happy to see a YA title on an awards list usually dominated by adult books. Along with a $10,000 CAD cash prize, each winning author receives promotional, marketing, and communications support. This award is handed out to a debut novel (published the same year) in each of three categories: Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Genre Fiction (Speculative Fiction this year). The Translation of Love by Lynne Kutsukake Their debuts are some of my most anticipated so I wanted to take the time to highlight them: Choi, M-E Girard and Lynne Kutsukake on the list. The shortlist for the third annual Kobo Emerging Writer Prize was recently announced and I was so thrilled to see Canadian authors Ann Y.K.
