Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists
The finalists for the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced earlier today. The awards are presented 7 categories for both English and French literature. Both adult and children's literature is honoured. This is the list of nominees for the English adult awards.
Fiction
The Free World by David Bezmozgis
Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
The Little Shadows by Marina Endicott
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
Touch by Alexi Zentner
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Non-Fiction
The Damned: the Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-1945 by Nathan M. Greenfield
Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug are Killing North America's Great Forests by Andrew Nikiforuk
The Measure of a Man: the Story of a Father, a Son and a Suit by J. J. Lee
Mordecai: The Life and Times by Charles Foran
Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume 2: 1867-1891 by Richard Gwyn
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Poetry
Cosmographia: a Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic by Michael Boughn
Discovery Passages by Garry Thomas Morse
Fieldnotes: a Forensic by Kate Eichhorn
Killdeer by Phil Hall
Origami Dove by Susan Musgrave
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Drama
House of Many Tongues by Jonathan Garfinkel
Gas Girls by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
If We Were Birds by Erin Shields
Lenin's Embalmers by Vern Thiessen
Minor Complications: Two Plays by Brendan Gall
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Translation French to English
Judith Cowan for Meridian Line, translation of Origine des mèridiens by Paul Bélanger
David Scott Hamilton for Exit, translation of Paradis, clef en main by Nelly Arcan
Lazer Lederhendler for Apocalypse for Beginners, translation of Tarmac by Nicolas Dickner
Lazer Lederhendler for Dirty Feet, translation of Les pieds sales by Edem Awumey
Donald Winkler for Partita for Glenn Gould, translation of Partita pour Glenn Gould by Georges Leroux
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The winners will be announced on November 15.
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2 thoughts on “Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists”
Considering that this is a site of the Toronto Public Library, I find it appalling that not all categories of the awards are listed. Nominations for children’s literature and illustrations are totally ignored on this page. I had thought that the TPL, of all organizations, would help to promote children’s literature and the reading of children’s books in Canada.
My apologies, Amanda. You’ll find our post about the Children’s Literature nominees here:
https://blogs.tpl.ca/bookbuzz/2011/10/governor-general-childrens.html