Reva Shortlisted for Fiction Prize
September 25th, 2025
Vancouver-based author Maria Reva has been named a finalist for the 2025 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize for her novel Endling (Knopf, 2025). The jury praised the book as “brilliantly metafictional, propulsive, and topical,” noting its vivid prose and daring exploration of contemporary Ukraine.
Reva, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in Vancouver, is the author of Good Citizens Need Not Fear (Knopf $29.95), a linked story collection set in Soviet-era Ukraine that was previously shortlisted for the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize in 2021. Her fiction has appeared in The Atlantic, McSweeney’s and The Best American Short Stories. She also writes opera libretti and, in 2022, was included on the Russian Foreign Ministry’s sanctions list barring certain Canadian citizens from entering the country.
For the full review of Endling, visit ABC BookWorld.
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