Top Canadian book prize awarded to humorist, travel writer

TORONTO, Oct 31: A humorist, travel writer and novelist who penned a fictional tale about the inner workings of Nigerian email scams won Canada�s most prestigious and lucrative literary prize yesterday. Will Ferguson won the C$50,000 (50,000 dollar) Scotiabank Giller prize for his novel �419,� published by Penguin Canada. (agencies)