Novelist and mentor Keith Maillard awarded the B.C. Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence
Maillard says he was "moved ... humbled and grateful" to find out he had received the award.
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Maillard says he was "moved ... humbled and grateful" to find out he had received the award.
For a writer who notably eschews the aesthetic approaches involved in social realism, Kilworthy Tanner is his most reader-friendly work to date.
The two other nominees for this year's prize also appear on the Giller longlist.
The most blazingly unforgettable tale in the anthology has to be EC Dorgan's "Prairie Teeth."
A reader like Brand, we understand, is someone who has never felt represented in the literature presented to her as the great and enduring work of the past.
The campaign of intimidation has led to the Giller Foundation taking the extraordinary step of releasing a public plea for the harassment to end.
The refusal to cut ties with Scotiabank but merely suppress its name in public is likely to further inflame those who feel the association with the bank is a moral stain on the prize.
As a commercial novel about the ultra-rich, The Plus One wants to have it both ways.
Siebert's empathetic approach to her material is admirable and she has the capacity for cutting observation.
The chimes between Europe of the 1930s and American in the 2010s and early 2020s are clear and persuasive.