Join on Thursday October 7 at 8:00 in Prairie Ink Restaurant, McNally Robinson Booksellers Winnipeg. She will be launching Out of Grief, Singing: A Memoir of Motherhood and Loss.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize is awarded to a Canadian author of a novel or short story fiction collection.
The prize was established as the Giller Prize in 1994 by Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch in honour of his late wife Doris Giller, a former literary editor at the Toronto Star, and is awarded in November of each year along with a cash reward of $50,000, with $40,000 presented to the winning author and $2,500 each for the other four shortlisted nominees.
The 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist.
for his novel THE MATTER WITH MORRIS
Phyllis Bruce Books/HarperCollins
for his short story collection LIGHT LIFTING, Biblioasis
for her short story collection THIS CAKE IS FOR THE PARTY, Thomas Allen Publishers
for her novel THE SENTIMENTALISTS, Gaspereau Press
for her novel ANNABEL, House of Anansi Press
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I'm always reading different things and I love to juggle books - subjects and concepts - in order to see what comes up! That means my night table books tend travel from room to room in the house and with me to the offices and wherever I end up during the day.
That's my apology for the chaos of this list!
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I love books, and I live with a book designer who also loves books so our rambling old house is full to the brim. It was fun to look on the bedside table and see the mish-mash piled there - to look at it simply for what it is, rather than thinking of how messy it looks. Almost as interesting an exercise would be to look through the bookshelf in the kitchen which is supposed to hold only the cookbooks. My favorite cookbook is Wild Plums in Brandy by Sylvia Boorman (McGraw Hill, 1962) which contains many odd recipes, including one for porcupine baked in clay, and was beautifully illustrated by Boorman's husband. Beside Wild Plums in Brandy, in the kitchen, is The Spectacle of the Scaffold by Michel Foucault (Penguin, 1977).
But I wasn't asked about the cookbook shelf, and so here is a sampling from what is on the bedside table:
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