Friday, November 25, 2005

Go Tom!


Tom Wharton has recieved yet another nomination for his amazing work (I'm obviously a big fan). This time it is The Logogryph that has been nominated, and for the Impac Dublin Award (the winner also gets 140,000.00).

132 books from around the world have been nominated for this award, and it's an impressive crowd to be included in. Other Canadian titles nominated include:

Miriam Toews' A Complicated Kindness
Michael Winter's The Big Why
Robert Hough's The Stowaway
Trevor Cole's Norman Bray in the Performance of His Life
Joel Hynes' Down to the Dirt
Beth Powning's The Hatbox Letters
Russell Smith's Muriella Pent
Wayson Choy's All that Matters
Richard Wright's Adultery
Greg Hollingshead's Bedlam

1 comment:

Beatrice said...

Yay for Tom! He's an awesome writer.