Hello Gentle Reader
It appears, and feels like it has been a long time my Dear Gentle Reader. Due to technical difficulties and a hectic week, I was unable to post anything last week. A few days ago, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, had announced its winner. The tulip receiver was Lynn Coady, whose short story collection "Hellgoing." This particular recognition for the short story, has critics and journalists and bloggers wondering, has two-thousand and thirteen been the start of a new renaissance of the short story? First there was the announcement and applause that Alice Munro had received the Nobel Prize for Literature. The short story – the poor cousin of the novel; had been pushed into the limelight. However there have been doubts, about the prescient thought, about, literary prizes having foresight. Generally speaking they speak of past fashions at best. The Nobel in particular is awarded on merit of a life time body of work; not on the fashionable ins and outs, of the literary world. Coady herself had expressed shock, at being awarded the prize. She herself had described herself, as a novelist who occasionally writes short stories. So with this in mind, one can say that the short story stands on its own grounds, as a separate literary form. However, it has come a long way from being simple practise for writing a novel.
Congratulations are in order for Lynn Coady.
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