But come 2022, there will be a literary award no North American man is eligible for: The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. First reported by the New York Times , the award will honor the best in North American fiction among women and nonbinary authors. It rewards more than the winnerThe winner of the Carole Shields Prize will help choose an emerging writer who they'll mentor for a year. For one, it's a North American prize, not just an American or Canadian one, she said. "It's going to be hard to ignore the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction."

Source: CNN February 09, 2020 10:52 UTC