2021 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Shortlists
The 2021 shortlist comprises six books from each category, selected by Kobo’s team of expert booksellers, and now three bestselling Canadian author judges have the difficult task of choosing the winners: Kamal Al-Solaylee for Nonfiction, Jennifer Robson for Literary Fiction, and Amy Stuart for Mystery.
The Skin We're In
A Year of Black Resistance and Power
Missing from the Village
The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto's Queer Community
Field Notes from a Pandemic
A Journey Through a World Suspended
They Said This Would Be Fun
Race, Campus Life, and Growing Up
Dead Mom Walking
A Memoir of Miracle Cures and Other Disasters
Finding Murph
How Joe Murphy Went From Winning a Championship to Living Homeless in the Bush
Five Little Indians
A Novel
When We Were Vikings
Good Citizens Need Not Fear
Hunger Moon
Aftershock
A Novel