Vietnam-Themed Work Wins Giller

by Nathalie Atkinson, PW Daily -- Publishers Weekly, 11/9/2005

Winnipeg-based writer David Bergen has won The Giller Prize for his novel The Time in Between, about an American former soldier who returns to Vietnam more than 25 years after the war. Published in August by McClelland & Stewart in Canada, The Time In Between will be published in U.S. next month by Random House (and simultaneously by Blackstone Audiobooks).

The Giller, Canada's premier fiction prize, was founded by Jack Rabinovitch 12 years ago in memory of his late wife, Doris Giller. Now sponsored in part by Scotiabank, the winning purse doubled to C$40,000. During the first 10 years of the award, more than 2.5 million books nominated for the Prize were sold, with more than C$60-million in book sales generated.