The Sleeping Car Porter is a novel by Canadian writer Suzette Mayr, published in August 2022 by Coach House Books.[1] Set in the 1920s, the novel centres on Baxter, a Black Canadian and closeted gay immigrant from the Caribbean who is working as a railway porter to save money to fund his dream of getting educated as a dentist.[2]
The Sleeping Car Porter won the 2022 Giller Prize,[3] and Publishers Weekly named it one of the top ten works of fiction published in 2022.[4]
The book's cover art is Unapologetically William by Janet Hill.[5]
^Eric Volmers, "Giller-shortlisted Calgary author Suzette Mayr's long journey to The Sleeping Car Porter". Calgary Herald, October 22, 2022.
^Brett Josef Grubisic, "Suzette Mayr’s novel ‘The Sleeping Car Porter’ an artfully constructed story that moves, beguiles, and satisfies". Toronto Star, September 26, 2022.
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produced the 2022 CBC and BET series ThePorter, about the railway sleepingcarporters who created North America's first Black labour union, the Brotherhood...
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US$150,000 to the winning work and US$12,500 to each of the shortlisted finalists, making it one of the world's richest literary awards. The prize is awarded...
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