Listen to the five finalists for the 2007 Giller Prize on this week's podcast.
The countdown to this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize is underway. On November 6th a jury will chose one author to be awarded $40,000 for the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English in the past year. Each of the four other finalists will be awarded $2,500.
On this week's Words At Large podcast you can hear all five of the finalists reading from their nominated books. You can also hear excerpts from interviews with those writers.
The five finalists cover the gamut of experience–Michael Ondaatje and M.G. Vassanji are multiple award-winners while Alissa York is relatively new on the scene. Elizabeth Hay has been a broadcaster as well as an author and Daniel Poliquin is an accomplished translator and author.
The books themselves are just as diverse with stories set in the past and the present, travelling from California through France to Canada’s far north and small town Utah.
For more information on the 2007 Giller Prize visit the website.
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