2009 Giller Prize goes to Linden Macintyre!

Congratulations to Linden Macintyre for winning the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for The Bishops Man.  The ceremonies were held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto tonight.  The cash prize for winning the Giller is $50,000.00.  It is one of the most covoted awards in the Canadian book industry.

For those of you who may be interested, here is a brief synopsis of the book:
" Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the "Exorcist" - an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward priests and suppress potential scandal. He knows all the devious ways that lonely priests persuade themselves that their needs trump their vows, but he's about to be sorely tested himself. While sequestered by his bishop in a small rural parish to avoid an impending public controversy, Duncan must confront the consequences of past cover-ups and the suppression of his own human needs. Pushed to the breaking point by loneliness, tragedy and sudden self-knowledge, Duncan discovers how hidden obsessions and guilty secrets either find their way to the light of understanding, or poison any chance we have for love and spiritual peace."


The competing finalists for the Giller were:
The Bishops Man by Linden Macintyre (Obviously!)
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Fall by Colin Mcadam

To purchase any of the books, you can visit:
http://community.indigo.ca/toptens/Giller-Prize-2009-Shortlist-Fiction-Editor/566001.html