{"id":27571,"date":"2012-10-31T14:07:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T18:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=27571"},"modified":"2012-10-31T17:21:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T21:21:54","slug":"jet-alum-will-ferguson-receives-canadian-literature-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/31\/jet-alum-will-ferguson-receives-canadian-literature-award\/","title":{"rendered":"JET Alum Will Ferguson Wins Canadian Lit Award"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Click image for JQ magazine’s 2010 feature story on Will Ferguson<\/p><\/div>\n

From the Associated Press<\/a> via the <\/em>New York Times:<\/em><\/p>\n

On Oct. 30, celebrated JET alum author Will Ferguson<\/a> (Nagasaki-ken, 1991-94) <\/strong>won the Scotiabank Giller Prize<\/strong>, a $50,000 Canadian fiction award,\u00a0 for a his novel 419<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, about a family’s entanglement in a Nigerian email scam.<\/p>\n

A kilt-wearing Ferguson pulled out a flask during his acceptance speech and raised a toast to the written word. Presenters included Sex and the City<\/em> actress Kim Cattrall.<\/p>\n

The Giller, which honors the best in Canadian fiction, was created in 1994 by businessman Jack Rabinovitch in memory of his late wife, literary journalist Doris Giller.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s ceremony was broadcast by the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. For a CBC video of Ferguson on writing 419<\/em> and being a Giller finalist, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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From the Associated Press via the New York Times: On Oct. 30, celebrated JET alum author Will Ferguson (Nagasaki-ken, 1991-94) won the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a $50,000 Canadian fiction award,\u00a0 for a his novel 419, about a family’s entanglement in a Nigerian email scam. A kilt-wearing Ferguson pulled out a flask during his acceptance speech […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,40,291],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-books","category-jq-magazine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t