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2007 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist Announced

Tuesday, Oct 09, 2007 at 4:38pm

The shortlist for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize has just been announced. The jury selected 5 titles out of the fifteen-book longlist.

Michael Ondaatje, M.G. Vassanji and Alissa York are among the authors up for this prestigious award.

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is Canada's richest literary award and is dedicated to celebrating the best in Canadian fiction each year.

Author and 2005 Scotiabank Giller Prize winner David Bergen, author Camilla Gibb and author, poet and artist Lorna Goodison comprised the 2007 jury.

The winner will be announced November 6.

The titles nominated for the shortlist are as follows:

  • Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay
  • Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
  • The Secret Between Us by Daniel Poliquin
  • The Assassin's Song by M.G. Vassanji
  • Effigy by Alissa York
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A Secret Between Us

- Daniel Poliquin , Don Winkler

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When young Lusignan sets off from Ottawa to the First World War with the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, he has already survived a tragicomic Catholic childhood and a writing career that has brought him both acclaim and disgrace. Shortly before the men depart for Europe, Lusignan has an encounter with a fellow officer, the aristocratic Essiambre d'Argenteuil, that proves to be the defining moment of his life.Returning from Europe a hollow man, Lusignan keeps the memory alive by shadowing Amalia Driscoll, a woman whose strait-laced proprieties were challenged by this same d'Argenteuil. He encounters Concorde, the untutored young maid struggling to get by in the Flats district of Ottawa, and the Capuchin monk Father Mathrun, who longs for martyrdom in a foreign land. Providing the backdrop to Poliquin's incisive character study is a vivid evocation of a pivotal era in Canadian history.