Zalika Reid-Benta
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Zalika Reid-Benta

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ZALIKA REID-BENTA is a Canadian writer. Her debut short story collection, FRYING PLANTAIN, won the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize for Literary Fiction in 2020. FRYING PLANTAIN was longlisted for the 2020 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and it was shortlisted for the 2020 Toronto Book Award, the 2020 Trillium Book Award, the 2021 White Pine Award and the 2020 Evergreen Award. Her second book and debut novel, RIVER MUMMA, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly, was the 2023 October Pick for the daytime talk show Cityline Book Club and was listed as one of the best books of 2023 by CBC Books, Indigo Books, Kobo Books and The Walrus literary magazine. In 2025, Tundra Books will publish Zalika's first picture book, TWELVE DAYS OF JAMAICAN CHRISTMAS.
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