Canadian poet and writer, Ian Williams has won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel Reproduction.
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Penguin Random House Canada describes the book as “A hilarious, surprising and poignant love story about the way families are invented.”
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Williams, a professor of creative writing at the University of British Columbia, told the CBC in an interview following the ceremony on Nov. 18, “There’s a lot of history that goes into standing right here.” He added, “novelists have been fascinated through centuries about how families are formed and how families are destroyed, and how families are reformed — it’s all love that keeps people together.”
Congrats Ian!