Congratulations to Esi Edugyan, winner of this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize! Edugyan’s win was announced at last night’s Giller gala. Half-Blood Blues, set amidst the jazz scene in Europe before and after the Second World War, has been greatly praised since its release

Hard on the heels of the other members of the “big three” English-language fiction triumvirate in Canada, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Literary Awards shortlists were announced today. In the English-language fiction category, the awaited shortlist reads:

Last month, 17 Canadian books were named to the Giller Prize longlist. Those 17 were winnowed down to six shortlisted books, and those six have been announced today. The six Canadian books shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, worth $50,000, are:

TCE Blog is proud to present the first of eight excerpts from Douglas Gibson’s new book Stories About Storytellers, which will appear each Friday.