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Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Vincent Lam Wins the Giller for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

Toronto-based author Vincent Lam has won the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest and most prestigious literary award, for his book of linked short stories, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures.

Read the CBC story.

I was hoping Rawi Hage would win for De Niro’s Game. I met Rawi in Calgary at Wordfest and heard him read. De Niro’s Game is about two young men during the war in Lebanon.

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