TORONTO - Emma Donoghue's "Room" is among the six finalists for the $20,000 English-language Trillium Book Award.
Donoghue, who won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize for "Room and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Governor General's Award, is up against James FitzGerald for "What Disturbs Our Blood," Rabindranath Maharaj for "The Amazing Absorbing Boy," Ken Sparling for "Book," Paul Vermeersch for "The Reinvention of the Human Hand" and Michael Winter for "The Death of Donna Whalen."
The awards also honour French fiction titles, English-language poetry and French-language children's literature.
Winners receive $20,000 while finalists get a $500 honorarium. Publishers of the winning titles receive $2,500 to help promote the books.
Finalists for the French fiction prize are Estelle Beauchamp's "Un souffle venu de loin," Murielle Beaulieu's "Laisse-moi te dire," Andree Christensen's "La memoire de l'aile," Michel Dallaire's "Pendant que l'Autre en moi t'ecoute" and Didier Leclair's "Le soixantieme parallele."
The English-language poetry finalists are Dani Couture for "Sweet," Jeff Latosik for "Tiny, Frantic, Stronger," Shane Neilson for "Complete Physical" and Peter Norman for "At the Gates of the Theme Park."
The French-language children's literature finalists are Gilles Dubois for "La piste sanglante," Sylvie Frigon for "Ariane et son secret," Jean-Claude Larocque and Denis Sauve for "Etienne Brule: Le fils de Champlain (tome 1)," Daniel Marchildon for "La premiere guerre de Toronto" and Aurelie Resch for "Les voleurs de couleurs."
The awards will be handed out on June 17 in Toronto.
