We’re very excited that We Love You, Bunny (Marysue Rucci Books US, Scribner Canada) by Mona Awad is one of five titles on the shortlist for the 2025 Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award!
The Giller Prize awards “the boldness, inventiveness, and transformational power of Canadian literature.” The judges of this year’s prize offered the following beautiful citation for We Love You, Bunny:
A delightfully deranged tale of rivalries, rabbits, murder, desperation and madness. We Love You, Bunny is an unhinged waltz through the corridors of creative academia, blending satire and surreal magical chaos as artistic creations stumble through the night with axes and fall in love, frat parties end in murder, and creative jealousies fuel uncanny powers. As hilarious as it is inventive, Awad’s novel is refreshingly original, bold in imagination and daring in its execution, asking us to consider: What do we owe to art, and what, if anything, does art owe us in return?
The ceremony honouring the 2025 Giller finalists and announcing the winner will take place on Monday, November 17, at 9 p.m. ET on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) TV in Canada and CBC’s YouTube channel.
See the full list of finalists here and discover We Love You, Bunny from Marysue Rucci Books/Simon & Schuster US here!
