The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language books. Each laureate receives $25,000 and a specially crafted copy of the winning book. The 2010 the English fiction and non-fiction shortlist is below. The winner's will be announced mid-November.
Fiction
, Annabel
, Room
, Waiting for Joe.
, Motorcycles & Sweetgrass.
, Cool Water.
Non-fiction
, The Boy in the Moon, A father's search for his disabled son.
, A History of Marriage.
, Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada.
, Burmese Lessons: A Love Story.
, Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000.
, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 with novels that combine surrealist experimentation with a kind of sardonic peasant pragmatism, died on Friday at his home in Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. He was 87.
A novel by Mr. Saramago, "The Elephant's Journey," is to be published posthumously in English on Sept. 8 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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The winner of this year's National Business Book Award is for his book, Why Your World is About to get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalization, published by Random House Canada.
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has been dead a scant two weeks but already people are clamouring for his unpublished work to be made available.
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The Young Adult Services Interest Group of the Canadian Library Association announced the shortlist for the 2009 Young Adult Book Award.
This award recognizes an author of an outstanding English-language Canadian work of fiction (novel, collection of short stories or graphic novel), published in 2008, that appeals to young adults between the ages of 13 and 18.
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