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title: "Vincent Lam Wins the Giller for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures"
description: "Quote: Toronto-based author Vincent Lam has won the Giller Prize, Canada's richest and most prestigious literary award, for his book of linked short stories, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures. Read..."
url: https://somisguided.com/2006/11/08/vincent-lam-wins-the-giller-for-bloodletting-and-miraculous-cures/
date: 2006-11-08
modified: 2006-11-08
author: "Monique"
categories: ["News: Arts & Entertainment"]
type: post
lang: en
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# Vincent Lam Wins the Giller for Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures

Quote: Toronto-based author Vincent Lam has won the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest and most prestigious literary award, for his book of linked short stories, (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.ca%2FBloodletting-Miraculous-Cures-Vincent-Lam%2Fdp%2F0385661444%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fqid%3D1162963401%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=somisguided-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=15121&creative=330641)

(http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/11/07/giller-prize.html)

I was hoping Rawi Hage would win for (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.ca%2FDeNiros-Game-Rawi-Hage%2Fdp%2F0887841961%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fqid%3D1162963325%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks&tag=somisguided-20&linkCode=ur2&camp=15121&creative=330641). I met Rawi in Calgary at Wordfest and heard him read. De Niro’s Game is about two young men during the war in Lebanon.