Toronto/CMEDIA: The City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library (TPL) have longlisted 13 books for the 2022 Toronto Book Awards.
Established by Toronto City Council in 1974, the awards honor books of literary merit that are inspired by Toronto.
Out of 73 submissions received this year reflecting the creativity and diversity of the city’s literary community, the following13 titles were selected for the 2022 Toronto Book Awards.
The titles longlist are:
- Home of the Floating Lily by Silmy Abdullah (Dundurn Press)
- Outdoor School by Morrell Borsato (Douglas & McIntyre)
- Work for a Million by Amanda Deibert and Serena Goulding (Penguin Random House Canada)
- The Relatives by Camilla Gibb (Doubleday Canada)
- Two Indians by Falen Johnson (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)
- Wrong Side of the Court by HN Khan (PRH Canada Young Readers)
- My City Speaks by Darren Lebeuf, Ashley Barron (Kids Can Press)
- Massey Hall by David McPherson (Dundurn Press)
- Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley (Penguin Random House Canada)
- My Face in the Light by Martha Schabas (Knopf Canada)
- The Underground Railroad, Next Stop by Adrienne Shadd, Afua Cooper, Karolyn Smardz Frost (Dundurn Press)
- Fight Night by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada)
- We Measure the Earth With Our Bodies by Tsering Yangozom Lama (McClelland & Stewart)
“My sincerest congratulations to the 2022 Toronto Book Awards longlisted authors and publishers for your exceptional books…I encourage people to buy one or all of these titles from your local bookseller and enjoy reading these Toronto stories,” said Toronto Mayor John Tory in a news release.
A reading list of the 2022 Toronto Book Awards longlisted titles available on the TPL website has been created by TPL.
“Once again, we’re so thrilled to celebrate and recognize Toronto’s talented authors through the annual Toronto Book Awards. From fiction and short stories to memoirs and graphic novels, the 2022 longlist…I hope that Torontonians will add these titles to their summer reading lists,” said Vickery Bowles, City Librarian at Toronto Public Library.
An announcement regarding the shortlist for the 2022 Toronto Book Awards will be made later this summer and a winner will be announced in a prize ceremony this November.
This is the 48th year of the Toronto Book Awards. $15,000 in total prize money is offered by the annual awards.
The winner of this award would receive $10,000 while each shortlisted finalist will receive $1,000.
Writers, educators, and other dedicated members of Toronto’s literary community comprise the 2022 Toronto Book Awards Jury.
More information about the awards is available on the City’s Toronto Book Awards webpage and on Twitter at @Culture_TO and #tobookawards.
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