Canadian expat Douglas Glover has won his native country’s Governor General’s award for fiction, beating out Canadian über-author Margaret Atwood for the $15,000 prize. Glover’s winning novel, Elle, is a fictionalized account of 16th-century French noblewoman Marguerite de Roberval’s years as a castaway. Other winners in the GG awards, which celebrate the best Canadian writing of the year, were Vern Thiesson (drama,) Tim Lilburn (poetry,) and Margaret MacMillan (non-fiction).