{"id":2244,"date":"2011-09-06T11:59:53","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T16:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:01","slug":"2010-giller-prize-longlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/06\/2010-giller-prize-longlist\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Giller Prize Longlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/2011-longlist\/\"><img src='http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/The_Free_World.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury announced its longlist on Tuesday, September 6. This is the 18th year of the prize and a record-breaking number of books were submitted by publishers across the country, a total of 143. This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/jury\/\">jury<\/a> is made up of: award-winning Canadian writer and 2009 Giller finalist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/jury\/#annabel-lyon\">Annabel Lyon<\/a>; American author, memoirist and Guggenheim fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/jury\/#howard-norman\">Howard Norman<\/a>; and acclaimed UK playwright and prize-winning novelist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/jury\/#andrew-o-hagan\">Andrew O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Hagan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time ever, the Scotiabank Giller Prize invited the public to choose a book for the longlist. The Readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Choice contest received more than 4,000 entries from passionate readers arguing their case for a favourite book. The Readers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 Choice selection was <em>Extensions<\/em> by Myrna Day, a debut novel published by Newest Press.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bezmozgis, David | The Free World<br \/>\nBlaise, Clark | The Meagre Tarmac<br \/>\nChristie, Michael | The Beggar&#8217;s Garden<br \/>\nCoady, Lynn | The Antagonist<br \/>\ndeWitt, Patrick | The Sisters Brothers<br \/>\nDey, Myrna | Extensions<br \/>\nEdugyan, Esi | Half-Blood Blues<br \/>\nEndicott, Marina | The Little Shadows<br \/>\nGartner, Zsuzsi | Better Living Through Plastic Explosives<br \/>\nGunn, Genni | Solitaria<br \/>\nHoldstock, Pauline | Into the Heart of the Country<br \/>\nJohnston, Wayne | A World Elsewhere<br \/>\nLaferri\u00c3\u00a8re, Dany (trans. David Homel) | The Return<br \/>\nMayr, Suzette | Monoceros<br \/>\nOndaatje, Michael | The Cat&#8217;s Table<br \/>\nVanderhaeghe, Guy | A Good Man<br \/>\nZentner, Alexi | Touch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotiabankgillerprize.ca\/2011-longlist\/\">2011 Giller Prize Longlist &#8211; Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize jury announced its longlist on Tuesday, September 6. This is the 18th year of the prize and a record-breaking number of books were submitted by publishers across the country, a total of 143. This year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jury is made up of: award-winning Canadian writer and 2009 Giller finalist Annabel Lyon; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/06\/2010-giller-prize-longlist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2010 Giller Prize Longlist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[325,314,483,303,172],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","tag-325","tag-award","tag-giller","tag-longlist","tag-prize"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10103,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/10103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}