Winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize is Edmonton author Lynn Coady for her short-story collection, Hellgoing.*

Coady has five previous books including The Antagonist, a Giller finalist in 2011.

The $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize is given for the year's best book of Canadian Fiction.

* House of Anansi Press, 2013.



 

"It was, and is common knowledge that the law has not been enforced...The court has been and will be patient but the court cannot turn a blind eye to the blatant contempt of the court's lawful order....Whatever is being done should be done peacefully but also lawfully, within the Rule of Law...

"...the Rule of Law is a 'pre-eminent condition of freedom and peace in a democratic society.' "

~ Judge D. Marshall, Cayuga Courthouse.

~VICTORY IN THE NO-GO ZONE, Winning the Fight Against Two-Tier Policing. G. McHale. Freedom Press Canada Inc., 2013.

Author Gary McHale will be in The Neat L'l Bookshop on Saturday, November 16, 10:30 - 3:00. 

English poet and novelist, Philip Larkin, referring to the work of a contemporary poet, "...But I do admire the way it's a long time before you notice he doesn't rhyme hardly at all.  That is an admirable feature, & an accomplishment I envy, though personally I'd as soon venture forth without rhyme as without boots in a meadow of snakes."

~ Letter to Norman Iles, April 16, 1944.  Selected Letters of Philip Larkin, edited by A. Thwaite, Faber and Faber Limited, 1992. Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985)

Pastural, tranquil Haldimand countryside.  Earthy.  Autumnal.  Agricultural.  Rural.  Searching for words.

(For larger image, pls. click on photo. Taken Nov. 2. lbw.)

"When in 1841 William Henry Fox discovered how a photographic image could be attached permanently to paper, it seemed to many that the art of painting had been dealt a body blow from which it would never recover.  In fact, some painters were so convinced that their careers as artists were in danger that they began trying to paint with a photographic realism that they had never tried before..."

~ RURAL LIFE, Adrian Vincent, Bloomsbury Books, 1987.

" The Flanders Campaign of 1917 was one of the most insane and brutal blood-baths in the history of war.
"For eight months the attacks ground away.  When winter and lack of 'cannon fodder' brought them to a halt, 500,000 men had been killed, wounded, gassed or driven insane in Flanders Fields.  For this fearful price, Haig had gained just four and a half miles!"

~ In FLANDERS FIELDS The 1917 Campaign, Leon Wolff, Ballantine Books, 1958/ The Viking Press Inc.

Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlist ~ 2013

Dennis Bock - Going Home Again
Lynn Coady - Hellgoing
Craig Davidson - Cataract City
Lisa Moore - Caught
Dan Vyleta - The Crooked Maid

"The first word in fiction for twenty years."

The winner will be announced on CBC live Tuesday, November 5, 9:00 a.m.