Wednesday, 31 October 2012

Will Ferguson won Canadian literature award

Ferguson won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book "419".
Will Ferguson has won one of Canada s most prestigious literary awards for a novel about a Canadian family s entanglement in a Nigerian email scan.

 

Ferguson won the Scotiabank Giller Prize for his book "419" on Tuesday. A kilt-wearing Ferguson pulled out a flask during his acceptance speech and raised a toast to the written word.

 

The $50,000 Giller prize honors Canadian fiction. Past winners have included

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