You thought we would forget about this:

bq. Kenyan-born M.G. Vassanji’s THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL won Canada’s Giller Prize last night (beating out Margaret Atwood and Ann-Marie MacDonald among others), making him the first two-time winner (he won the first Giller for THE BOOK OF SECRETS in 1994). The book was just published in September by Doubleday Canada, and a US edition is not listed for sale yet. [ via Publishers’ Lunch]

According to Ottawa Citizen, “In 1994, the nuclear physicist-turned-author won the inaugural Giller for The Book of Secrets. The jury applauded the strengths of the book, calling it “an astonishing tapestry of irresistible vignettes,” the jury said. “The novel chronicles his own evolution against a mesmerizing literary landscape.”