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2006 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Kamau Brathwaite, Barbados

Born to Slow Horses International Winner

Wesleyan University Press, USA
Michael Hofmann, Germany/UK

Ashes for Breakfast

translated from the German written by
Durs Grünbein, Germany
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Michael Palmer, USA

The Company of Moths

New Directions Publishing, USA
Elizabeth Winslow, USA

The War Works Hard

translated from the Arabic written by
Dunya Mikhail, Iraq/USA
New Directions Publishing, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Phil Hall, Canada

An Oak Hunch

Brick Books, Canada
Sylvia Legris, Canada

Nerve Squall Canadian Winner

Coach House Books, Canada
Erín Moure, Canada

Little Theatres

House of Anansi, Canada