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Author: Brad Wheeler
Publication Date: November 17, 2025 - 22:02
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Souvankham Thammavongsa wins 2025 Giller Prize for debut novel Pick a Colour
November 17, 2025
Laotian-Canadian poet Souvankham Thammavongsa has won the $100,000 Giller Prize for the best Canadian fiction of the year, prevailing over four other finalists with Pick a Colour, a debut novel about a boxer-turned-manicurist.
The Toronto writer, who won the Giller prize in 2020 for her debut short-story collection How to Pronounce Knife, accepted this year’s prize at a gala ceremony in Toronto on Monday.
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As a youngster in Quebec, she dreamt of becoming a dancer. Instead, Jennie Carignan soared to become Canada’s first female Chief of the Defence Staff, the highest-ranking military position in the Canadian Armed Forces.
Appointed to the rank and position in July 2024, Gen. Carignan was educated as an engineer, has served in the Canadian military for more than 35 years, and has held leadership roles with missions to Afghanistan, Bosnia, Iraq and Syria. In 2013, she became the first woman commandant of the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que.
On the personal side, Carignan, 57,...
December 17, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
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