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Congratulations Lynn Coady!

November 6, 2013
Hellgoing by Lynn Coady
Hellgoing by Lynn Coady

Yesterday, Lynn Coady won the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 for her collection of short-stories called “Hellgoing”. In an emotional speech, she thanked her husband, her parents and her publisher. She also added that she was proud to be a Canadian writer, especially since authors were treated like movie stars in our country.

About the book (from the publisher’s website, House of Anansi):

With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.

A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can’t seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day.

Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.

Did you watch the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 ceremony yesterday? Are you going to read “Hellgoing”?

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Cécile Sune was born in Lyon, France, and her obsession with books started when she was 14. Her grandparents had lent her Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell, and she spent part of the summer indoors reading. Needless to say, her tan didn't really improve that year! It was also around that time that Cécile fell in love with the English language. Several years later, in 1999, Cécile moved to Toronto, Canada, with her cat and 5 suitcases. Her love of reading greatly increased when she discovered that English books were much cheaper than French novels. In 2013, she decided to start a blog to share her passion. Cécile now lives in Ottawa, Canada, with her husband and their daughter, and works as a freelance translator (CS Revision).

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Comments (2)

  1. Renee says:
    November 9, 2013 at 12:33

    I don’t usually read award winning books – only because they are often so serious! But I’m a pretty flaky person, and I like my books to be too:)

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    1. Cecile says:
      November 9, 2013 at 13:35

      I do read award winning books from time to time, but it’s true that most of them are dramas and usually pretty sad. I don’t know yet if I’ll read Lynn Coady’s book. I have such a long list of books to go through! Too many books, too little time!

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