Canuck

  Wednesday, 23 October 2002

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Life of Pi takes Booker. Books: Yann Martel's magical realist tale has won this year's prize. [Guardian Unlimited]

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Yann Martel wins Booker Prize
Canadian author Yann Martel won the Man Booker Prize for Literature Tuesday for his second novel, Life of Pi. F U L L   S T O R Y
[CBC News]

Another Canuck wins the Booker!

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By SANDRA MARTIN

-- Guy Vanderhaeghe and Rohinton Mistry are zero for two this year, having struck out on the shortlists for both the Giller and the Governor-General's literary awards. Their editor, McClelland and Stewart fiction publisher Ellen Seligman, admitted she was ''very shocked'' by the snub to Vanderhaeghe's novel, The Last Crossing, by the Governor-General's jury, which announced its finalists yesterday. ''It is a literary masterpiece that is both ambitious and successful,'' she said, an opinion that is shared by Globe reviewer and novelist Annie Proulx and many others, including me.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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Nineties not kind to arts groups: study

By JAMES ADAMS
-- Declining government support and shrinking audiences in the last decade forced Canada's performing-arts companies to mount fewer productions and seek greater support at the box office and from donors, a Statistics Canada study has found.  FULL STORY [The Globe and Mail: Arts]