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Joseph Boyden has won the Giller Prize—you know, "Canada's Premier Prize for Fiction"!—for Through Black Spruce, a novel that this year's jury of Margaret Atwood, Bob Rae, and Colm Toibin praised for "show[ing] us unforgettable characters and a northern landscape in a way we have never seen them before." (It's a bit of a surprise pick: Mary Swan’s The Boys in the Trees was the "overwhelming" winner of the Guess The Giller contest, according to their press release earlier in the day.) The Globe, Post, Star, and CTV all have more details from the gala.

If authors Thomas King and Joseph Boyden ever teamed up as Can-Lit superheroes this could be their secret identities.

, previously (and, the general consensus is, egregiously) overlooked on the Giller shortlist. Most of the nominated authors were not in attendance, however, as the shortlist was top secret until Monday morning - we even saw a couple of excitable Thomas Allen reps race outside with their cellphones, presumably to make ecstatic calls to their authors. But either Russell Smith talks too fast, or people were too distracted by the danishes to pay attention to him, because not three minutes after the shortlist was announced everyone was clamouring for those bookmarks that list all the nominees. Doesn't anyone in this town take notes anymore? Click here for the full list of nominees.

) short-story wunderkind was shut out of the hometown prize last year but went on to get nods elsewhere, winning pretty much every other literary award around, including the most recent Toronto Book Award. Since both authors happen to be relative outsiders in the small-ish Canadian publishing community, it begs the question, Could the Gillers be one big popularity contest, like a grown-up junior high? Say it ain’t so, Jack.