Ontario Creates has announced the finalists for the 2023 Trillium Book Awards/Prix Trillium.

The annual awards recognize excellence in Ontario’s writers who work in both French and English. Winning authors receive $20,000, and their publishers receive $$2,500 to market and promote the winning titles.

The winners will be announced on June 20.

The finalists are:

Trillium Book Award

• Cobalt: Cradle of the Demon Metals, Birth of a Mining Superpower by Charlie Angus (House of Anansi Press)
• William Shakespeare’s As You Like It, A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal (Playwrights Canada Press)
• The Book of Grief and Hamburgers by Stuart Ross (ECW Press)
• All the Shining People: Stories by Kathy Friedman (House of Anansi Press)
• Best Young Woman Job Book: A Memoir by Emma Healey (Random House Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)

Trillium Book Award for Poetry

• Parasitic Oscillations by Madhur Anand (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Fast Commute by Laurie D. Graham (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• My Grief, the Sun by Sanna Wani (House of Anansi Press)

Prix Trillium

• Circé des hirondelles by Gilles Lacombe (L’Interligne)
• dire by Andrée Lacelle (Prise de parole)
• Feux du naufrage by Gilles Latour (L’Interligne)
• Frontières libres by Marie-Thé Morin (Prise de parole)
• Capharnaüm by Nancy Vickers (David)

Prix du livre d’enfant Trillium

• Dany à la dérive by Pierre-Luc Bélanger (David)
• Le secret de Paloma by Michèle Laframboise (David)
• Mégane et Mathis by Hélène Koscielniak (David)