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Past Non-Fiction Winners

Past Winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards for Non-Fiction.



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I've Got a Home in Glory Land - trade paperback
By Karolyn Smardz-frost - $21.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2007 Governor General's Literary Awards for Non-fiction.This epic story is the first entirely original biography of a fugitive slave couple since the 19th century. I’ve Got a Home...

 

The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism - trade paperback
By Ross King - $23.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.Finalist for the 2007 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. If there were two men who were absolutely central to artis...

 

The Golden Spruce - trade paperback
By John Vaillant - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2006 Pearson Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize.Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.The Golden Spruce is the story of a glorious natural wonder, the man...

 

Shake Hands with the Devil - trade paperback
By Romeo Dallaire - $24.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2004 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.On the tenth anniversary of the date that UN peacekeepers landed in Rwanda, Random House Canada is proud to publish the unforg...

 

Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World - trade paperback
By Margaret Macmillan - $21.00 - add to cart

Winner of the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.Winner of the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction.Between January and July 1919, after “the war to end all wars,” men and ...

 

The Ingenuity Gap - trade paperback
By Thomas Homer-dixon - $22.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 2001 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. The Ingenuity Gap identifies the difference between the amount of creativity and intelligence needed to overcome today's proble...

 

Notes from the Hyena's Belly: Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhood - trade paperback
By Nega Mezlekia - $22.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 2000 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.In this powerful memoir, Nega Mezlekia recalls in vivid detail his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his coming ...

 

Water (Revised Edition) - trade paperback
By Marq Devilliers - $26.99 - add to cart

Winner of the 1999 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.The Fate of Our Most Precious ResourceWater – where it is, who owns it, how much we’ll need, and how to make sure we’ll have it ...

 

The Unconscious Civilization (Cbc Massey Lectures Series) - trade paperback
By John Ralston Saul - $16.95 - add to cart

Winner of the 1996 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction.John Ralston Saul argues that the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling "corporatist" structure that serves the...

 




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