As part of the International Festival of Authors in Toronto I interviewed the five finalists for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Listen to the conversation >> audio
The finalists were:
Carleigh Baker for Bad Endings
Claire Cameron for The Last Neanderthal
David Chariandy for Brother (eventual winner)
Omar El Akkad for American War
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson for This Accident of Being Lost