The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2024 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section), which each year honours the best work of Canadian literary criticism published in English.
This year’s shortlisted finalists (in alphabetical order) are:
Jennifer Andrews. Canada Through American Eyes: Literature and Canadian Exceptionalism. Palgrave Macmillan. 2023.
Paul Huebener. Restless in Sleep Country: Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024.
Susie O’Brien. What the World Might Look Like: Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal. McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024.
The shortlist was chosen by a jury composed of Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria), Laurel Ryan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and Steven Urquhart (University of Lethbridge).
The winner will be announced publicly on Saturday, May 24, 2025 at the Gabrielle Roy Prize Reception as part of ACQL’s annual conference. To register to attend the ceremony or the conference, please visit our conference’s registration page.
For more information, contact Nicholas Bradley, Chair of the Jury, English Section, at nbradley@uvic.ca.