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MacIntyre Wins Giller 2009
11/11/2009
TORONTO - Linden MacIntyre is best known for his journalism with the C-B-C and not nearly as much for his work as an author.
And yet, he won the Scotiabank Giller Prize -- much to his surprise and the shock of much of the audience at the glitzy award dinner last night in Toronto.
MacIntyre's second novel, "The Bishop's Man," was declared the best of the year by a panel of three judges, Canadian Alistair MacLeod, American Russell Banks and Brit Victoria Glendinning.
During his acceptance speech, MacIntyre joked he won by an accident of consensus.
MacIntyre beat out Kim Echlin, Colin McAdam, Anne Michaels and perceived front-runner Annabel Lyon to take home Canada's richest literary prize.
Lyon's "The Golden Mean" had been considered the favourite to win by many, largely because the first-time novelist had received the most pre-Giller hype.
Her book was also nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
MacIntyre wins 50-thousand dollars.
The runners-up each receive five-thousand dollars.
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