André Forget

André Forget is a Canadian writer,[1] whose debut novel In the City of Pigs was longlisted for the 2022 Giller Prize[2] and shortlisted for the 2023 Amazon.ca First Novel Award.[3]

Forget was born in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Mount Forest.[4] He is a former editor of the literary magazine The Puritan.[4]

In the City of Pigs grew out of a short story Forget wrote for a collaborative arts group led by his friend Joel Peters, on the prompt of an underwater organ.[1] The full novel centres on Alexander Otkazov, a failed classical musician who moves to Toronto and becomes drawn into a shady real estate cabal.[5]

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