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The Lobster Kings scheduled for May 2014 in Canada and the USA.

Touch is longlisted for the 2013 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Touch was shortlisted for the 2012 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award

Touch was shortlisted for the 2011 Amazon.ca First Novel Award

Touch was shortlisted for the 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award, Canada’s oldest literary prize

Touch was longlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize

Le Monde says: “Ce premier roman d'Alexi Zentner est d'une effrayante beauté.”

Touch is shortlisted for The Center for Fiction’s 2011 Flahery-Dunnan First Novel Prize.

The CBC named Alexi as one of “12 Canadian Writers to Watch,” and called Touch, “a haunting multi-generational story with mythical overtones, reminiscent of the work of Canadian literary great Joseph Boyden.”

PEOPLE Magazine calls Touch a “breathtaking debut.”

Mclean’s Magazine compares Alexi to a Greek god and says “there isn’t a weak sentence in the book.”

The National Post profiles Alexi and says Touch is “an arresting debut novel that will likely be in contention for some major prizes.”

Selected Praise

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