Although all the hoopla down here in the States has been focused on this morning’s National Book Awards shortlist, spare a moment if you will for the finalists in this year’s Scotiabank Giller Prize, the “premier literary prize for fiction” up in Canada:
- Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air
- Michael Ondaatje, Divisadero
- Daniel Poliquin, A Secret Between Us
- M.G. Vassanji, The Assassin’s Song
- Alissa York, Effigy
Of the five books nominated, only Ondaatje and Vassanji’s have been published in the United States already, though a previous novel of York’s was published by Delphinium a few years back.