TORONTO -- CanLit legend Alice Munro has made the short list for this year's Ontario Trillium Book Award.
The two-time Scotiabank Giller Prize winner, who's previously landed two Trillium prizes, is a contender for her short story collection "Dear Life" (McClelland & Stewart).
Other finalists include Linda Spalding for "The Purchase" (M&S), which won the 2012 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction.
A total of six English-language and five French-language books have been shortlisted for the annual provincial prize, which honours Ontario-based writers.
The other English-language finalists are: "Maidenhead" (Coach House Books) by Tamara Faith Berger; "The Blondes" (Doubleday Canada) by Emily Schultz; "The Dead Are More Visible" (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) from Steven Heighton; and "The Inconvenient Indian" (Doubleday Canada) by Thomas King.
Award recipients for both English and French works receive $20,000.
Three titles are also shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry in English language and three are up for the prize for children's literature in French language.
The finalists are scheduled to read from their nominated works on June 17 at the Toronto Reference Library.
The winners will be announced on June 18 in Toronto.
