Mona Awad, Eddy Boudel Tan, Emma Donoghue, Emma Knight and Souvankham Thammavongsa are the five writers shortlisted for the 2025 Giller Prize .

The $100,000 award annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction.

The 2025 shortlist features five novels, covering a wide range of material, from an 1800s train disaster in Donoghue's The Paris Express , to the family tragedy revealed in Tan's The Tiger and the Cosmonaut to life working in a nail salon in Thammavongsa's Pick A Colour

Thammavongsa previously won the 2020 Giller Prize for her short story collection How To Pronounce Knife , while Donoghue was on the shortlist in 2016 for The Wonder and on the longlist for two other novels.

Awad, nominated this year for We Love You, Bunny, also made the

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