This year's winner (in case you haven't already heard, although I'm pretty sure you have by now) is:
The Golden Mean
Written by Annabel Lyon
(Random House Canada)
Prize: $25,000
An acclaimed Canadian short-story writer's breakout first novel, which vividly imagines the friendship between the philosopher Aristotle and the young Alexander the Great.
As The Golden Mean opens, Aristotle must postpone his dream of succeeding Plato at the Academy in Athens when he is forced to tutor Alexander, a prince of Macedon. At first the philosopher is appalled at living in the brutal backwater of his childhood, but soon he is drawn to the boy's intellectual potential and his capacity for surprise. But is Aristotle's mind any match for the warrior culture that is Alexander's birthright?
Told in the frank, earthy and engaging voice of Aristotle himself, and bringing to life a little known time and place, The Golden Mean traces the true story of this remarkable friendship. With sensual and muscular prose, Lyon reveals how Aristotle's genius influenced the boy who would conquer the known world.
The other finalists were:
Fences in Breathing
Written by Nicole Brossard
Translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
(Coach House Books)
Generation A
Written by Douglas Coupland
(Random House Canada)
Too Much Happiness
Written by Alice Munro
(McClelland and Stewart: A Douglas Gibson Book)
Eva’s Threepenny Theatre
Written by Andrew Steinmetz
(Gaspereau Press)
Each finalist was awarded: $2,500
For more information, please go to: The Writers' Trust
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