A Montreal novelist has come forward to charge that she co-wrote the book that won this year’s Governor General award for non-fiction and was promised recognition she didn’t receive. Nega Mezlekia, author of Notes From the Hyena’s Belly, denies the claim. “I hired her because I was worried about the formal aspects of my work. She would try and change things, but I don’t think she was doing it out of spite, but because she didn’t understand the book. She didn’t have a sense of humour. She was always telling me that the book will never see the light of day.” – National Post (Canada)