CMEDIA/Toronto: The City of Toronto and Toronto Public Library (TPL) are reportedly pleased to announce the longlist for the 2025 Toronto Book Awards.
Honouring authors whose works deepen our understanding of Toronto’s diverse communities, cultures and history, the Toronto Book Awards was established by Toronto City Council in 1974.
2025 Longlist
- ‘Encampment’ by Maggie Helwig (Coach House Books)
- ‘Unlike The Rest’ by Chika Stacey Oriuwa (Harper Collins Canada)
- ‘Shadow Price’ by Farah Ghafoor (House of Anansi)
- ‘The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse’ by Vinh Nguyen (Harper Collins Canada)
- ‘Other Worlds’ by André Alexis (McClelland & Stewart)
- ‘Nobody Asked For This’ by Georgia Toews (Doubleday Canada)
- ‘Story of Your Mother’ by Chantal Braganza (Strange Light)
- ‘All the Parts We Exile’ by Roza Nozari (Knopf Canada)
- ‘Widow Fantasies’ by Hollay Ghadery (Gordon Hill Press)
- ‘The Knowing’ by Tanya Talaga (Harper Collins Canada)
- ‘The Immortal Woman’ by Su Chang (House of Anansi)
- ‘Anne of the Library-on-the-Hill’ by Catherine Little with Sae Kimura (Plum Leaf Press)
To be released later this summer, the shortlist’s winner would be announced at a ceremony on October 15. The City is doubling the prize amounts this year awarding $20,000 to the winner and $2,000 to each of the remaining shortlisted finalists.
Included in this year’s jury are Canadian literary voices and advocates Sam Hiyate, Sophie Jai, Wanda Nanibush, Don Oravec and David Silverberg.
