Winner.

LATE NIGHTS ON AIR | ELIZABETH HAY: In the mid-1970s, after returning to a small radio station in Canada's Far North following his failure in Toronto, Harry Boyd finds himself among an endearing, motley crew whose love affairs, intrigues, and a canoe trip bind them together.

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"Elizabeth Hay has managed not only to capture the details of northern life in the 1970s, and hidden beauties in the low-lying geography of Yellowknife, but also the quirky rhythms of such a place and time, the stops and starts in relationships, people bruptly disappearing, fragments of narrative that drop out of consciousness and are resolved many pages later." MARIAN BOTSFORD FRASER, GLOBE AND MAIL [TORONTO]

DIVISADERO | MICHAEL ONDAATJE: Teenage sisters Anna and Claire help their widowed father on an isolated farm in northern California and secretly vie for the attentions of Coop, the farmhand. An act of violent rage forces the family to take flight--with lifelong consequences. (GOOD Sept/ Oct 2007)

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THE ASSASSIN'S SONG | M. G. VASSANJI: Karsan, next in line as guardian to the medieval Sufi shrine in Gujarat, breaks this legacy when he wins a scholarship to Harvard and then decides to teach in Canada. When tragedy necessitates his return to India, he is forced to reconsider his life. (Vassanji won the 1994 Giller Prize for The Book of Secrets and again in 2003 for The In-Between World of Vikram Lall.)

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EFFIGY | ALISSA YORK: As an ill, solitary child, Dorrie learns the art of taxidermy. At age 14, she is sent off to marry a polygamous Mormon horse breeder and hunter, who uses her skills to preserve his best kills--which resemble a grotesque version of her own life.

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A SECRET BETWEEN US | DANIEL POLIQUIN: In 1914, young Lusignan leaves his Franco-Ontarian village and joins the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. A sexual encounter with his superior officer changes his life, and when he returns from Europe as a haunted man, he cannot shake off those memories.

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2007 GILER PRIZE

The Scotiabank Giller Prize is Canada's premier literary award for fiction and comes with a $40,000 prize.