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The Manitoba Book Awards has announced the short lists for this year’s prizes in 11 different categories.

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The Manitoba Book Awards has announced the short lists for this year’s prizes in 11 different categories.

The contenders for the top prize, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, are: Five Wives by Joan Thomas; Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related by Jenny Heijun Wills; Perception: A Photo Series by KC Adams; Radical Medicine: The International Origins of Socialized Health Care in Canada by Esyllt W. Jones; and St. Boniface Elegies by Catherine Hunter.

M.C. Joudrey, shortlisted for the top fiction prize for Fanonymous, also nabbed three nominations for his book design and cover art work. Adams and Heijun Wills each received three nods for their non-fiction books, while Thomas’s Five Wives and Seyward Goodhand’s story collection Even That Wildest Hope each were nominated twice.

The awards ceremony was slated to take place Friday, May 15; instead, the winners will be announced online that day. The complete list of nominees and prize categories is slated to be online at manitobabookawards.com.

— Ben Sigurdson

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