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The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the winners of this year's Governor General's Literary Awards. The prizes are awarded to the finest in Canadian fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation. A partial list of winners follows. For a complete list, please visit the Governor General's Literary Awards website.
- Fiction: The Origin of Species by
- Poetry: More to Keep Us Warm by
- Drama: Bone Cage by
- Non-Fiction: Fifteen Days by
- Children's Literature (Text): The Landing by
- Children's Literature (Illustration): The Owl and the Pussycat illustrated by (text by Edward Lear)
- Translation (French to English): Nikolski translated by (translation of Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner)
| By Nino Ricci - $34.95 - add to cart | |
Set in Montreal in the 1980s, The Origin of Species tells the story of thirty-something Alex Fratarcangeli (“I can’t even pronounce it myself,” he admits to an acquaintance), plagued by a familiar ...
| By Jacob Scheier - $16.95 - add to cart | |
Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the real...
| By Catherine Banks - $18.95 - add to cart | |
Bone Cage is a poetic and darkly humorous portrayal of life in rural Nova Scotia, where stripping the environment means stripping your soul. Jamie is twenty-two years old and works twelve-hour shif...
| By Christine Blatchford - $34.95 - add to cart | |
Long before she made her first trip to Afghanistan as an embedded reporter for The Globe and Mail, Christie Blatchford was already one of Canada’s most respected and eagerly read journalists. Her...
| By John Ibbitson - $7.95 - add to cart | |
Will Ben ever escape the Landing? The hardscrabble farm on the shores of Lake Muskoka can't generate a living, so Ben's Uncle Henry sells goods and gas to cottagers from the dock known as Cooks Lan...
| By Edward Lear (text) And Stephane Jorisch (illustrations) - $11.95 - add to cart | |
Gaze through the eyes of one of today's most talented, accomplished illustrators and see one of the most beloved poems in the English language in an entirely new light. Witness a marriage of class...
| By Nicolas Dickner (translated By Lazer Lederhendler) - $26.95 - add to cart | |
Spring 1989. Three young people–Noah, Joyce and an unnamed narrator–leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. Each ends up in Montreal, each on a voyage of ...
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