House of Anansi wins the Giller

Lynn Coady’s short story collection Hellgoing won Canada’s biggest prize for fiction, the Scotiabank Giller Prize.

House of Anansi Press, her Toronto-based publisher, had also published Coady’s novel The Antagonist, which was shortlisted for the prize in 2011.She has also been shortlisted to the Gobernor General’s Literary Award and the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humourm, and has four times made The Globe and Mail’s annual list of Top 100 Books.

Spanish rights for the short story collection are available through the Antonia Kerrigan Literary Agency.