Charles Taylor Prize Names Richard Gwyn, John A.

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www.movingstories.tv -- The bookselllers in the room, the authors at the podium, they rank the Charles Taylor Prize in an echelon shared by Scotiabnk Giller Prize for fiction, and Griffin Prize for Poetry.  All this literary splendour, within days of the announcement that the plug was pulled on the US, NBC-broadcast Quill Awards.  Makes us feel good in a Canadian way, eh.

Richard Gywn, whose book was published by our favourite rock-star publisher Anne Collins of Random House Canada, won this year's Prize for literary fiction.  Also nominated were David Gilmour, Lorna Goodison, Kevin Bazzana and Anna Porter.  Look for snippets from these excellent authors in the upcoming blog entries.

Shot on location at Le Meridien King Edward Hotel March 3 (c)  2008 BookShorts.