Monthly Archives: September 2008

Congratulations to past Descant contributor Anthony De Sa and former Now Hear This! staff member Pasha Malla, who both appear on the longlist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The jury members this year are Margaret Atwood, Bob Rae and Colm Toibin. Commenting on the longlist, they state:

“These fifteen books vary widely in technique, in setting, and in tone — from the historical to the contemporary, from the comic to the satiric to the tragic, from the local to the international. Nothing unites them but the jury’s belief in their accomplishment: each contributes something fresh, original, thoughtful, or vital to the practice of fiction.”

An excerpt of De Sa’s Barnacle Love, published March 2008, appeared in Descant 140: Improvisations under the title Shoeshine Boy.
We wish both authors good luck for the shortlist announcement coming up on October 7th!