Thursday, November 13, 2008

"Everyone Was Gonna Win It But Me"

James Adams tracks Through Black Spruce author to discover the Giller Guy's running on coffee and adrenalin.


Any of this year's nominees would have been a surprise winner in that all five short-listed positions were occupied by rookies and sophomores — in other words, writers virtually unknown to the wider public three or four years ago. But in going with Boyden the jurors did honour at least two Giller traditions — they went with an author who has an Ontario connection, either by birth or residency, (Boyden was raised in Willowdale) and a male author at that. In the 15 years of the Giller, only five first-place cheques have gone to women (and on two occasions it has been Alice Munro) and only two winners have been non-Ontarians (Montréal's Mordecai Richler in 1997 and Winnipeg's David Bergen in 2005).

(Kinda depres . . . mmffmmffffmmmm . . . nah . . . must not rain on anyone's parade . . . ffmmffmmmmffff . . ..)

p.s. Very special thanks to a very special friend who granted BITE his very special permission to use the very special copyrighted pic (up there) of that very special GillerMan . . . Isn't this especially grovellicious? EGAWDS . . . :)

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