Canisia Lubrin Has Won The 2025 Carol Shields Prize.

Today, astatine a unrecorded arena astatine nan Chicago History Museum, Canisia Lubrin was named nan victor of nan 2025 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction—which honors exceptional novels, short communicative collections, and schematic novels by women and non-binary writers successful nan U.S. and Canada—for her book Code Noir (Knopf Canada/Soft Skull Press).

The assemblage was comprised of Diana Abu-Jaber (Chair), Norma Dunning, Kim Fu, Tessa McWatt, and Jeanne Thornton. Here’s what they had to opportunity astir nan winning title:

Code Noir contains multitudes. Its characters inhabit multi-layered landscapes of nan past, coming and future, confronting suffering, communion and metamorphosis. Canisia Lubrin’s prose is polyphonic; nan stories induce you to immerse yourself successful some nan existent and nan speculative, successful nan friendly and successful sweeping moments of history. Riffing connected nan Napoleonic decree, Lubrin retunes nan legacies of slavery, colonialism and violence. This is simply a virtuoso postulation that breaks caller crushed successful short fiction.

Lubrin will person an grant of $150,000 and a five-night enactment astatine Fogo Island Inn. The different writers on nan shortlist will each person $12,500.