Scotiabank Giller Prize / en Linda Rui Feng longlisted for 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize /celebrates/linda-rui-feng-longlisted-2021-scotiabank-giller-prize <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Linda Rui Feng longlisted for 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize</span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-type/community" hreflang="en">Community</a></div> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>lanthierj</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2021-10-01T16:28:35-04:00" title="Friday, October 1, 2021 - 16:28" class="datetime">Fri, 10/01/2021 - 16:28</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-people field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/faculty" hreflang="en">Faculty</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-people/alumni" hreflang="en">ֱ</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-campus field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/st-george" hreflang="en">St. George</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-campus/scarborough" hreflang="en">Scarborough</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-awards-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/department-east-asian-studies" hreflang="en">Department of East Asian Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/faculty-arts-science" hreflang="en">Faculty of Arts &amp; Science</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/celebrates/awards-tags/scotiabank-giller-prize" hreflang="en">Scotiabank Giller Prize</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-image-orientation field--type-list-string field--label-hidden field__item">landscape</div> <div class="field field--name-field-image field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="lazy" src="/sites/default/files/media/Linda__Rui-crop.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="Linda Rui Feng"> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>(Photo by Anastasia Brauer)</p> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Associate Professor <b>Linda Rui Feng</b> of the department of East Asian studies in the Faculty of Arts &amp; Science has been longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize for her debut novel <i>Swimming Back to Trout River</i>.</p> <p>Published by Simon &amp; Schuster, the book is set against the backdrop of China’s cultural revolution and tells the story of a husband and wife who move to&nbsp; the United States, leaving&nbsp;their daughter behind with her grandparents in China. <a href="https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/linda-rui-feng/swimming-back-trout-river/"><i>Kirkus Reviews </i>described&nbsp;it</a> as “filled with tragedy yet touched with life-affirming passion.”</p> <p>A recipient of the Chancellor Jackman Research Fellowship in the Humanities from the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/news/jhi-fellows-profile-linda-rui-feng" target="_blank">Jackman Humanities Institute</a>, Feng is currently working on a cultural history of aromatics in late medieval China.</p> <p>Feng is one of 12 authors whose books are longlisted for the prestigious $100,000 prize, which recognizes the best in Canadian fiction. Other members of the ֱ community who made the list include Governor General’s Award-winning author <b>Miriam Toews</b>, <a href="https://utsc.utoronto.ca/news-events/archived/acclaimed-canadian-author-miriam-toews-starts-new-year-utscs-inaugural-writer-residence">the University of Toronto Scarborough’s inaugural writer-in-residence</a>, who was nominated for <i>Fight Night</i>, published by Knopf Canada.</p> <p><i>Em</i>, written by Governor General’s Award-winning author Kim Thuy and translated by alumna <b>Sheila Fischman</b>, was also named to the list. A Member of the Order of Canada, Fischman has translated more than 150 works of Quebec contemporary fiction&nbsp;from French to English.</p> <p><a href="https://scotiabankgillerprize.ca/live/">The announcement of the longlist </a>was hosted by alumna <strong>Souvankham Thammavongsa</strong>, <a href="/news/why-don-t-i-just-write-souvankham-thammavongsa-winning-giller-and-her-time-u-t">who won the prestigious award last year </a>for her book, <em>How to Pronounce Knife</em>.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-source field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">UTC</div> <div class="field field--name-field-top-story-hub-page- field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Top Story (Hub page)</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Fri, 01 Oct 2021 20:28:35 +0000 lanthierj 170499 at