2015 Governor General’s Literary Awards Finalists
The shortlist for the Governor General's Literary Awards was announced October 7, 2015. Awards are presented in both official languages in a number of different categories for both adults and children. The complete list of nominations can be found on the Canada Council for the Arts website.
These are the adult English finalists for 2015:
Drama
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Carried Away on the Crest of a Wave by David Yee
Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble by Beth Graham
• eBook
Mahmoud by Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis
Odd Ducks by Bryden MacDonald
Winners and Losers by Marcus Youssef and James Long
Fiction
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Daddy Lenin and Other Stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe
• eBook
The Evening Chorus by Helen Humphreys
• eBook
How You Were Born by Kate Cayley
Outline by Rachel Cusk
• eAudiobook
• eBook
• Large Print
The Winter Family by Clifford Jackman
• eBook
• Large Print
Non-Fiction
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Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive by Mark L. Winston
Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice of War by David Halton
• eBook
Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird by Armand Garnet Ruffo
Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover by Michael Harris
• eBook
The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder and Our Relationship with the Written Word by Ted Bishop
Poetry
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Crossover by M. Travis Lane
For Your Safety Please Hold On by Kayla Czaga
Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent by Liz Howard
• eBook
My Shoes are Killing Me by Robyn Sarah
• eBook
Washita by Patrick Lane
The winners will be announced on October 28, 2015.
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