"Joyce Carol Oates wins $10K Blue Met award Source: @CBCNews #screenwriting #fiction #film ""Montreal's annual Blue Metropolis literary festival is luring American novelist Joyce Carol Oates in 2012 by honouring her with the International Literary Grand Prix. The $10,000 award recognizes a lifetime of literary achievement by an internationally acclaimed writer. Oates' win was announced Tuesday in Montreal by festival president William St-Hilaire. Oates published her first novel in 1963 and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize three times – for Black Water, What I Lived For and Blonde. She has often been a controversial voice, exploring themes of violence, class tension and sexual abuse in contemporary America……"""