You can’t judge a book by its scholar?
By Eric Hill • Jan 5th, 2010 • Category: Editor's Picks, From the Interweb, RantsIt’s the start of a new year for Canadian literature. The hoopla surrounding last year’s Giller has quieted down. The Governor-General’s Literary Awards have been handed out. Soon Canada Reads will fill the gap and take over the public’s imagination. For most literary institutions, January is a sleepy time.
Break time is over, though, for literary prize foundations. I’m sure the Giller advisory board has already started drafting up potential jury lists for 2010, and that someone at the Canada Council has been tasked with a similar function. But I’m also certain that none of the names bandied about will be those of Canadian literature scholars.
Why? Because apparently literary critics (as opposed to reviewers) have no place in Canadian literary prize competitions.
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Eric Hill is the editor of branta.
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