Suddenly Light - Paperback

by Nina Dunic (Author)

Shortlisted for the 2026 Trillium Book Award

Longlisted for the 2026 Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

An Apple Books Best Book of 2025

Among the CBC's Best Canadian Fiction of 2025

A Necessary Fiction Best Book of 2025

"These stories give literary realism a good name."--Kirkus Reviews

Fifteen stories replete with an intimate, nuanced, and quietly profound realism by the Trillium Book Award-winning author of The Clarion

With crisp and penetrating prose, the stories in Suddenly Light are bracing, buoyant, and test the delicate threads that tie us together.

Author Biography

Nina Dunic is a two-time winner of the Toronto Star Short Story Contest, has been longlisted by the CBC Short Story Prize four times, and was nominated for The Journey Prize. CBC Books named Dunic in its 2023 Writers to Watch list. Her debut novel The Clarion won the 2024 Trillium Book Award, was longlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize, was selected as the Best Canadian Debut of 2023 by Apple Books, and was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2023. Nina lives in Scarborough, ON. Find out more at ninadunic.com.