TORONTO, ONT – Author Sarah Bernstein received the Scotiabank Giller Prize on Monday for her novel “Study for Obedience.”
The Montreal-born, Scotland-based creator approved the $100,000 award remotely from Scotland, the place she had a child simply 10 days in the past.
Her novel is ready a tender girl shifting to the faraway north the place after her arrival, a chain of inexplicable occasions happen.
The 100,000 Canadian buck ($72,000 U.S.) Giller prize honors the most efficient in Canadian fiction. Past winners have integrated Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler and Alice Munro.
Just as Bernstein’s identify was once referred to as on the gala, a protester interrupted the reside telecast with anti-Israel battle slogans, forcing organizers to copy the announcement.
The celebrations have been additionally interrupted early within the broadcast when a number of anti-Israel protesters jumped onstage.
The Giller was once created in 1994 via past due businessman Jack Rabinovitch in reminiscence of his past due spouse, literary journalist Doris Giller.