2009 Giller Prize Shortlist
Since 1994, the Giller Prize (now the Scotiabank Giller Prize) has been awarded to a Canadian fiction author, for the best work of fiction in English (translated included) from the previous year. The nominees are narrowed to a shortlist of five finalists. The winner of the prize receives $50,000, and each of the four runners-up receives $5,000. Previous winners include Rohinton Mistry for A Fine Balance, Margaret Atwood for Alias Grace, Alice Munro for The Love of a Good Woman (and again years later for Runaway), and many more. Last year's winner was Joseph Boyden, for his novel Through Black Spruce. The winner for 2009 will be announced on November 10th in Toronto.
Here is this year's shortlist:
Fall
Colin McAdam
Colin McAdam's second novel is a work of power, pitch-perfect observation and searing ambition. It confirms his status as a truly unique talent, one of the few living novelists capable of taking the modern novel and forging from it something startling and wholly new.
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The Disappeared
Kim Echlin
This story of passionate love between a Canadian and her Cambodian lover evokes their tumultuous relationship in a world of colliding values. Set against the backdrop of horrific loss, these two self-exiled lovers struggle to recreate themselves in a world that rejects their hopes.
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The Bishop's Man
Linden MacIntyre
From an award-winning writer and one of Canada’s foremost broadcast journalists, comes a deeply wise and moving novel that explores the guilty minds and spiritual evasions of Catholic priests.
The Winter Vault
Anne Michaels
The Winter Vault is a stunning, richly layered, and timeless novel. Set in Canada and Egypt, and with flashbacks to England and Poland after the war, The Winter Vault is a spellbinding love story that juxtaposes momentous historical events with the most intimate moments of individual lives.
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The Golden Mean
Annabel Lyon
What would it have been like to sit at the feet of the legendary philosopher Aristotle? In her first novel, acclaimed fiction writer Annabel Lyon boldly imagines one of history’s most intriguing relationships and the war at its heart between ideas and action as a way of knowing the world.
