Posted by: Tan Light - Coordinator, Digital Sales & Marketing, Random House of Canada

The biggest prize in Canadian literature, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, was awarded last night at the Four Seasons Hotel in Toronto. Our own Anthony De Sa was up for this prestigious award, valued this year at $50,000, for his story collection Barnacle Love. Not a sum to sneeze at in the book world! And while we, the average joes, could not attend the ceremony, a number of the young publishers made it to the Giller Light Bash, a party at which we watched the Gillers and ate great food, all in support of Frontier College.

Here in the Digital department, we thought that our new Twitter feed would be a great way to cover both parties. We had our Giller correspondent - Nicola Makoway, Anthony De Sa’s publicist - who tweeted for her first time to bring us coverage from the main event.

At the same time, we were tweeting from the floor of the Giller Light, snapping photos of authors and food, while waiting for the big announcement. You can check out our Twitter feed here to catch all the fun.

If you missed the announcement, the winner was Joseph Boyden for his sophomore novel, Through Black Spruce (Penguin, 2008). Congratulations to Joseph, and to the four shortlisted authors. I for one, can’t wait to do it all again next year!