The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section), which each year honours the best work of Canadian literary criticism published in English.

The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) is pleased to announce the finalists for the 2022 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:

Joel Deshaye, for The American Western in Canadian Literature (University of Calgary Press) 

Deanna Reder, for Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition: Cree and Métis âcimisowina (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) 

Robert Zacharias, for Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor Transnationalism (Pennsylvania State University Press)

The shortlist was chosen by a jury composed of Nicholas Bradley (University of Victoria), Kait Pinder (Acadia University), and Candida Rifkind (University of Winnipeg). The winner will be announced publicly on Monday, May 29, 2023at the Annual Meeting of the ACLQ, which will be held in person at the ACQL conference (York U).

For more information 

Kait Pinder, Chair of the Jury, English Section

kait.pinder@acadiau.ca