Simon & Schuster Canada has launched Scribner Canada, "dedicated to publishing the best literary fiction and nonfiction from Canada and around the world."
Kevin Hanson, president and publisher, Simon & Schuster Canada, said, "I've long admired Scribner U.S. and their venerable list of authors, and am excited to launch this new imprint that will complement and support our existing local publishing program, with its numerous bestsellers. The creation of Scribner Canada will broaden our publishing reach, bring new voices to readers, and grow our already stellar list of authors."
Scribner Canada's first list will appear this fall and include We Spread by Iain Reid, a genre-bending novel examining the nature of loneliness, age and memory; movie rights have been acquired by Anonymous Content. (Reid and director Minahl Baig will adapt, and the film will star Saoirse Ronan, Paul Mescal and Aaron Pierre.)
The first nonfiction Scribner Canada title is The Long Road Home by Debra Thompson, a McGill University professor and expert on race and ethnic politics. In the book, Thompson follows the roots of Black identities in North America, starting with her own family, who traveled the Underground Railroad to Shrewsbury, Ontario, and then tracing her journey across America in search of blackness and belonging.
Other Scribner Canada titles will include:
In the Belly of the Congo by Blaise Ndala, an English translation of his novel Dans le ventre du Congo, winner of the Prix Kourouma and the Prix Ivoire for African Literature, and a finalist for the Grand Prix du Roman Métis and the Five Continents Prize.
African Samurai by Craig Shreve, a historical novel based on the story of Yasuke, Japan's first foreign-born samurai and the only samurai of African descent.
The Boat in the Backyard by screenwriter/TV producer Perry Chafe, a coming-of-age story about a young boy on an island in Newfoundland and his connection to a teenage girl who has disappeared.
Stolen by Sami Swedish author Ann-Helén Laestadius, winner of Sweden's Book of the Year Award, a novel that follows Elsa, the nine-year-old daughter of Sami reindeer herders, who is threatened into silence after witnessing a man brutally killing her reindeer calf. A decade later she still struggles to defend her Indigenous heritage.
The Most Secret Memory of Men by Senegalese novelist Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to be awarded the Prix Goncourt. The Most Secret Memory of Men is an investigation into the life of a mysterious author.