Lynn Coady wins Scotiabank Giller Prize |

The 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize was presented on November 5 to Lynn Coady for Hellgoing, a collection of short stories.

The three member jury was composed of writers Margaret Atwood, Esi Edugyan and Jonathan Letham. They stated that:

The eight stories in Lynn Coady’s Hellgoing offer a stupendous range of attitudes, narrative strategies, and human situations, each complete and intricate, creating a world the reader enters as totally as that of a novel, or a dream. Yet the book as a whole is also magically united by Coady’s vivid and iconoclastic language, which brims with keen and sympathetic wit. Whether from the perspective of a writer flailing in the social atmosphere of a professional conference, or a woman trying to extend forgiveness to a lover’s abusive father, Coady offers a worldview full of mournful humour, ready indignation, and vertiginous possibility; the reader feels in the presence of life itself.

Hellgoing is also available as an eBook.

The other finalists this year were: