Congratulations to Anne Fleming (BA '88) whose novel Curiosities was shortlisted for the 2024 Giller Prize!
Last week, the Giller Prize announced this year's shortlist featuring five Canadian authors. Among them is Fleming, an Honours English graduate from the University of Waterloo, for her novel Curiosities.
Published in April by Penguin RandomHouse Canada, the book begins when amateur historian Anne discovers memoirs from 17th century England. As she pieces together a story of plague, superstition, and queer love, she must frame the events with her own contemporary understanding of truth and queer identity.
As the Giller Prize jury writes, "Curiosities is a captivating story of hope, change, and belonging, and first and foremost a testament to varieties of love that endure beyond any one history or era.”
Fleming is also the author of Pool-Hopping and Other Stories, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize; and the novel Anomaly, published to widespread acclaim. Her middle-grade novel, The Goat, was a Junior Library Guild and White Ravens selection, shortlisted for Italy’s Premio Strega, optioned for film, and named one of the Top Ten Children’s Books of the Year by the New York Public Library and The Wall Street Journal. Fleming lives in Victoria, British Columbia.