The Road Years is the sequel to Rick Mercer's bestselling memoir Talking to Canadians.
Other longlisted authors include Patrick deWitt, Deborah Willis and William Ping. The shortlist will be announced on May 21 and the winner will be revealed on June 22.Rick Mercer is among the 11 authors longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour.
The $25,000 prize is one of the oldest of its kind, established in 1947 to support the growth of Canadian humour writing. This year, there are 11 books on the longlist instead of 10.and all the great encounters and other adventures that making the show allowed him to experience. It's a celebration of happy moments told in Mercer's trademark positivism and humour.
which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. She followed it up with a collection of short fiction entitled. Taking place in Newfoundland, it is a story about two William Pings — a millennial in the present with a realization that he needs to learn more about his Chinese heritage and his grandfather in the past who came to Newfoundland from China to work in a laundry in 1931.
Ping is a writer and CBC journalist at the St. John's bureau. He completed his Master of Arts at Memorial University and received the English department's Award for Thesis Excellence for the book he wrote for his master's degree.The prize is named in honour of Ontario writer Stephen Leacock, a humorist and popular author in the first half of the 20th century. His books includedsince the fall of 2020. The organization is based in Orillia, Ont.
Other past winners include Heidi L.M Jacobs, Robertson Davies, Pierre Berton, Farley Mowat, Paul Quarrington, Mordecai Richler, Stuart McLean, Terry Fallis, Susan Juby and Cassie Stocks.Sign up for our newsletter. We’ll send you book recommendations, CanLit news, the best author interviews on CBC and more.
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