Governor General’s Literary Awards Announced
The fourteen winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards were announced earlier today. The awards are presented for books in English and French and for both adult and juvenile literature. Each winner will receive $25,000. The presentation ceremony will take place on November 24 at Rideau Hall.
Fiction
The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt
L'homme blanc, Perrine Leblanc
Poetry
Killdeer, Phil Hall
Plus haut que les flammes, Louise Dupré
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Drama
If We Were Birds, Erin Shields
Ce qui meurt un dernier, Normand Chaurette
Non-Fiction
Mordecai: The Life and Times, Charles Foran
Wanderer: essai sur le Voyage d'hiver de Franz Schubert, Georges Leroux
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Children's Literature–Text
From Then to Now: a Short History of the World, Christopher Moore
Les aventures de Radisson–1: L'enfer ne brûle pas, Martin Fournier
Children's Literature–Illustrations
Ten Birds, Cybèle Young
Lili et les poilus, Caroline Merola
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Translation–French to English
Partita for Glenn Gould, Donald Winkler, translation of Partita pour Glenn Gould by Georges Leroux
Translation–English to French
Toxique ou l'incident dans l'autobus, Maryse Warda, translation of The Toxic Bus Incident by Greg MacArthur
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