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The Sisters Brothers tells the story of Eli and Charlie Sisters, guns-for-hire who are tracking a prospector through mid-19th-century California. “I think that I’m still processing a lot of it,” deWitt said of his success these past few months. “I think it will settle in over the next few months. I think it’s something I’ll be thinking of more, once all the noise has passed and I’m back in my office. burberry outlet cheapAll I know now is I feel predominantly a feeling of gratitude. Recognition on this level was completely unexpected. So it was just sort of the nicest of surprises for me. I feel very moved by it all.” The prize was especially meaningful to deWitt, because he received a much-needed grant from the Canada Council for Arts, which administers the GGs, during the writing of The Sisters Brothers. He was running out of money and considering asking his father for a construction job when the envelope arrived in the mail. “I remember my hands were shaking,” he says. “My wife and my mother were there; it was this really intensely dramatic moment. When I opened it up and got it, we all erupted in cheers. It was a really fine moment for me. “I can’t really overstate how much it really saved me,” he said. “I think it really benefitted the book in a really tangible way, because when you have to take breaks, when you’re forced to take breaks — which has happened to me so much in the past – often times, you just lose the momentum completely, and the initial spark, your affection for the characters – all those things can disappear.” Foran’s book earlier won the Charles Taylor prize for Literary Non-Fiction and the the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. “The 2011 GG-winning books reflect the diversity and depth of contemporary Canadian literature,” said Robert Sirman, Director and CEO of the Canada Council for the Arts. “With the hundreds of other great books that have won Canada’s national literary award over the past 75 years, they represent pure gold for Canadian creative excellence.”
