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Recent PhD alumnus Kasia Van Schaik's debut story collection,, has been longlisted for one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.听

Said to "shimmer and compel like half-remembered dreams," these interwoven short stories听follow the journey of Charlotte Ferrier, a child of divorce raised by a single mother in small-town British Columbia after emigrating from South Africa. The collection, also shortlisted for the Concordia University First Book Prize, "traverse[s] the most intimate and transforming moments of female experience in a world threatened by ecological crisis" (University of Alberta Press). In being named, Kasia听joins a list of 12 Canadian authors recognized for their outstanding literary merits.听The shortlist will be announced on Oct. 11.