Vincent Lam Author of Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures - Giller Video Profile

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Giller Profile: Vincent Lam was named the 2006 winner of The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's premier literary prize for fiction, for his novel Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures, published by Doubleday Canada, at a gala dinner and award ceremony that drew more than 450 members of the publishing, media and arts communities. Hosted by Justin Trudeau, The Scotiabank Giller Prize was broadcast across Canada in primetime on CTV and, for the first time, live around the world on The CTV Broadband Network CTV.ca.

Of the winning book, the jury, comprised of The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson and distinguished Canadian authors Alice Munro and Michael Winter, remarked: This series of inter-linked stories is a profound and meaningful glimpse into a world which seems on the surface to be purely medical, but leads us into the metaphorical. The characters and the situations are unexpectedly bound together and make us, as readers, not just witnesses to, but participants in, the world that has been created for us.

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