Lynn Coady has won the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize

"Edmonton author Lynn Coady won the $50,000 Scotiabank Giller Prize for the year’s best book of Canadian fiction, besting a varied shortlist made up of familiar names, a past nominee, and an exciting newcomer. Her winning short story collection, Hellgoing, is the follow up to her novel The Antagonist, which was a Giller finalist in 2011. […]
     Ms. Coady, the author of five previous books, is one of the most respected younger writers in Canada, and the Giller Prize win will serve only to further establish her reputation.
     In his Globe review of Hellgoing, critic Jeet Heer praised Ms. Coady’s stories, and located within them a connection to a particular spiritual background: 'One of the hallmarks of Lynn Coady’s work is her shrewd examination of the underexplored byways of human psychology, including the twisty road that connects a religious upbringing with outré erotic experimentation.'”
— Jared Bland, The Globe and Mail
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torn

"...This tension between hoarding and retailing is both funny and sad, which explains the hilarious pathos that runs through The Pope’s Bookbinder, the sprightly but also melancholy memoirs of David Mason, a Canadian book dealer of international reputation.
     Mason’s father was a stereotypically prudent banker, who often derided his son not only for wasting his youth spent bumming around Europe but also for taking up so impecunious a profession as book dealing.
     As the elder Mason liked to ask his son’s colleagues, 'Why do you guys always only talk about buying books; why don’t you try and sell a book once in a while?'”

— Jeet Heer, The Globe and Mail
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