Frances Itani is among the final six for the 2014 Scotiabank Giller prize for novel Tell. The literary award, given to the best Canadian fiction book of the year, is now worth $100,000 to the winner, making it Canada's most lucrative literary prize.
The 72-year-old former nurse has had a long publishing career, penning poetry and children's books as well as fiction. Itani is a member of the Order of Canada and three-time winner of the CBC Literary Prize. Her work has been recognized with many other award nominations, as well as a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her novel Deafening.
Tell is set in the immediate period following the First World War, when the men and women of a small Ontario town are struggling to recover. A young soldier returns, wounded and disfigured, leaving his wife to figure out how to carry on. Other characters also search for ways to deal with the different ways that the war has changed their lives.
The Giller jury praised the book as "a treasure: serious with humorous moments, potent and controlled, subtle yet deeply moving."
Itani reads from Tell, and describes the moment she found out she'd made the shortlist in the video above.
The winner of the Giller prize will be announced, in a televised gala hosted by Rick Mercer on Monday in Toronto.
Watch the broadcast at 9 p.m. (10 p.m. AT /10:30 NT) on CBC Television and livestreamed on CBC Books.
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