Breaking: Suzette Mayr wins $100,000 Giller Prize for ‘The Sleeping Car Porter’
The Calgary-based Mayr won for for her novel “The Sleeping Car Porter,” from Coach House Books, which follows a queer, Black sleeping car porter making a treacherous trip from Montreal to Vancouver in 1929. She was previously longlisted for the prize in 2011 for her novel “Monoceros.”
In an interview with the Star a short time later, she said that “writing is such a solitary act. I’ve written five books before this that have gotten a little bit of attention but not a ton. Even though I love writing and I’ll always continue to write, sometimes when you don’t get nominated for awards or you start to wonder if maybe you’re in the right profession.”
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