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2021 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Victoria Chang, USA

Obit

Copper Canyon Press, USA
Valzhyna Mort, Belarus/USA

Music for the Dead and Resurrected International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Srikanth Reddy, USA

Underworld Lit

Wave Books, USA
Tracy K. Smith, USA and Changtai Bi, China

My Name Will Grow Wide Like A Tree

translated from the Chinese written by
Yi Lei, China
Graywolf Press, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Joseph Dandurand, Canada

The East Side of It All

Nightwood Editions, Canada
Canisia Lubrin, Canada/St. Lucia

The Dyzgraphxst Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Yusuf Saadi, Canada

Pluviophile

Nightwood Editions, Canada