Several of the big Canadian literary prizes have announced their finalists/shortlists -- and in The Globe and Mail John Barber diagnoses that these show that this is The year of discord among the literary experts, as:
Dissension flowered in the fall literary sweepstakes with Tuesday's announcement of the short list of five books competing for the 2012 Governor-General's Literary Award in fiction, none of which appeared on the just-announced short list of nominees for the 2012 Scotiabank Giller Prize.(Worth noting, too: Alix Ohlin's William Giraldi-shredded Inside is Giller Prize-shortlisted .....)