According to this morning's
Globe and Mail newspaper out of Toronto, a debut novel self-published by its author after he couldn't attract an agent or publisher, has won Canada's most prestigious award for literary humor: the CAN$10,000
Stephen Leacock Medal.
Terry Fallis of Toronto, a 48-year-old first-time author, beat out four other finalists, all of whom had been published by regional or national publishers.
Fallis published his political satire
The Best Laid Plans with the print-on-demand service
iUniverse after successfully offering free downloadable podcasts on his own web site and at
Podiobooks.
After Fallis was put on the Leacock Medal's short list earlier this spring, Beverley Slopen, one of Canada's best-known literary agents, changed her mind and agreed to take him on. "I love it when people break the rules and win," Slopen told
The Globe and Mail's James Adams.
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