Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji's exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy. Vassanji in Toronto on Sept. 26, 2012.Aaron Vincent Elkaim/The Canadian Press
Celebrated novelist M.G. Vassanji’s exploration of the emigrant experience is among the finalists for the $60,000 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy.
The Writers’ Trust of Canada announced this year’s short list on Wednesday morning.
Vassanji, who has twice won the Giller Prize for his fiction writing, made the Balsillie Prize short list for Nowhere, Exactly: On Identity and Belonging.
Also vying for the award is Wendy H. Wong, for her book We, The Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age, which was also a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize.
Rounding out the short list are Gregor Craigie’s Our Crumbling Foundation: How We Solve Canada’s Housing Crisis, and Christopher Pollon’s exploration of resource extraction, Pitfall: The Race to Mine the World’s Most Vulnerable Places.
The prize will be handed out on Nov. 26, a week after the Writers’ Trust Awards.