Vincent Lam up for Story Prize in the U.S.
From CBC.ca:
Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam has been shortlisted for the Story Prize for short fiction for his book, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures.
The Story Prize is an annual U.S. book award for short story collections written in English and published in the U.S.
Three finalists, chosen by a jury, were announced on Wednesday.The competing entries are Jim Shepard’s Like You’d Understand, Anyway, which was nominated for a National Book Award in the U.S., and British author Tessa Hadley’s Sunstroke and Other Stories.
Great. So now Margaret Atwood is telling the Americans what to do too. (I mean, it can’t be because the book was, oh, I don’t know . . . good. Right?) I tell you, that Atwood woman is nefarious.