Pullinger's eighth takes Governor General's award
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Updated: November 19, 2009 1:14 PM
Kate Pullinger, a Cranbrook-born, UK-based author, is the recipient of this year's Governor General's Award for Fiction for her eighth novel The Mistress of Nothing.
Pullinger was honoured to be recognized in a competition that also included rising fiction star Annabel Lyon and short story master Alice Munro.
Pullinger was awarded the prize over 181 books considered by jurors Judy Fong Bates, Wayne Johnston and Shaena Lambert.
Lyon's The Golden Mean and Munro's Too Much Happiness, which are both up for the Roger's Writers' Trust prize next week, were accompanied by Michael Crummey's Galore and Deborah Willis's Vanishing and Other Stories in the competition.
Pullinger received one of 14 prizes that were given out, each worth $25,000.
The Mistress of Nothing tells a story about Victorian fashion designer Lucy Duff Gordon's trip to Egypt. The story is narrated by Gordon's maid, Sally.
Pullinger had been working on the story on and off since 1995.
