The
Giller Prize I do not usually watch these presentations,
but, I was drawn to it when I wachted Vincent Lam. He really impressed me. So,
I want to share this with my fellow Canadians, and especially, with the Torontonians. p.s.
I also heard through the rumour mill that this book will be turned into a television
series. Toronto, ON
(November 7, 2006) – Vincent Lam has been named
the 2006 winner of The Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s premier literary prize
for fiction, for his novel Bloodletting
& Miraculous Cures, published by Doubleday
Canada. The announcement was made at a gala dinner and award ceremony that drew
more than 450 members of the publishing, media and arts communities. Hosted by
Justin Trudeau, The Scotiabank
Giller Prize was broadcast across Canada
in primetime at 10 p.m. ET on CTV and, for the first time, live around the world
on The CTV Broadband Network at 9 p.m. ET at CTV.ca. The telecast will air again
tomorrow, Wednesday, Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. ET
and Saturday, Nov. 11 at 4 p.m. ET
on CTV (check local listings), as well as on-demand on The CTV Broadband Network
at CTV.ca. The largest
annual prize for fiction in the country, The Scotiabank Giller Prize awards $40,000
each year to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published
in English and $2,500 to each of the finalists. 
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for your interest: Bloodletting Ancient
Greek painting in a vase, showing a physician (iatros) bleeding a patient.
Bloodletting
(or blood-letting, in modern medicine referred to as phlebotomy) was a popular
medical practice from antiquity up to the late 19th century, involving the withdrawal
of often considerable quantities of blood from a patient in the hopeful belief
that this would cure or prevent a great many illnesses and diseases. The
practice, of unproven efficacy, has been abandoned for all except a few specific
conditions as modern treatments proved or believed to be effective have been introduced.
It is conceivable that historically, in the absence of other treatments for hypertension,
bloodletting could sometimes have had a beneficial effect in temporarily reducing
blood pressure by a reduction in blood volume.
Today
the term "phlebotomy" refers to the drawing of blood for laboratory analysis or
blood transfusion (see Phlebotomy (modern)). Therapeutic phlebotomy refers to
the drawing of a unit of blood in specific cases like hemochromatosis, polycythemia
vera, porphyria cutanea tarda etc., to reduce the amount of red blood cells.
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