and continue their dominance of Canadian award lists by being among this year's fiction nominees for the 75th year of the Governor General's Literary Awards, .
For a complete list of nominated works, click ****** below.
| Categories: Awards, Poetry, Publishing News, Literature |
Summer, 1978. Brezhnev sits like a stone in the Kremlin, Israel and Egypt are inching toward peace, and in the bustling, polyglot streets of Rome, strange new creatures have appeared: tho...
Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Fiction, the 2011 Roger's Writers Trust Prize, and the 2012 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The e...
Winner of the 2011 Giller Prize for Fiction. Paris, 1940. A brilliant jazz musician, Hiero, is arrested by the Nazis and never heard from again. He is twenty years old. He is a Germ...
Here is the eagerly anticipated new novel from a brilliant writer whose last book, Good to a Fault, was shortlisted for the prestigious Giller Prize and won the Commonwealth Prize for Can...
NOMINEE 2011 - Scotiabank Giller PrizeTouch begins with Stephen, an Anglican priest, returning from Vancouver to the northern BC town of Sawgamet where he grew up, just in time for his mo...
Poetry. Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comes COSMOGRAPHIA: A POST-LUCRECIAN FAUX MICRO-EPIC, the latest ground breaking incursion into th...
Poetry. FIELDNOTES, A FORENSIC charts one forensic anthropologist's series of descents in the first decade of the new millennium--a decade when forensic discourses and experts became ubi...
Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Poetry. These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade...
With breathtaking virtuosity, Garry Thomas Morse sets out to recover the appropriated, stolen and scattered world of his ancestral people.
In a world where hilarity and heartbreak are next-door neighbours, minor complications inevitably arise. In this first collection of plays by Brendan Gall, including 'Wide Awake Hearts' a...
During the Six Day War, an Israeli general found an abandoned house and made it his home. Forty years later, the general, along with his imaginative and distant son Alex, live in peaceful...
Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Drama. When King Pandion marries his daughter Procne off to war hero King Tereus, she must leave her beloved sister Philomela behind. Af...
Gigi knows the limitations of her trade, while her young protege, Lola, looks for love in every man that comes her way. LolaâEUR(TM)s brother, Chickn, ekes out his own living while keepin...
When Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobiev, two Jewish biochemists, are recruited by Josef Stalin to embalm Lenin after his death, both men are pushed to their limits in preserving the form...
Winner of the 2011 Governor General's Award for Nonfiction. Foran's book is IT: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and th...
2011 Governor General?s Literary Awards Finalist - Non-FictionThe Damned tells the largely unknown saga of Canada?s first land battle of the Second World War?fought in the hills and valle...
Winner of the 2012 Dafoe Book Prize and the 2012 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. An exciting story, passionately told and rich in detail, this major biography is the sec...
FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction (2012)FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction (2012)FINALIST - BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (...
A Globe & Mail Top 100 Selection Beginning in the late 1980s, a series of pine beetle (also known as the bark beetle) outbreaks unsettled iconic forests and communities across western No...
In the little village of Duk Padiet in southern Sudan, a boy named Jacob Deng thrives on the love of his mother, the companionship of his sisters, the excitement of learning how to look a...
There's not much that upsets young Valli. Even though her days are spent picking coal and fighting with her cousins, life in the coal town of Jharia, India, is the only life she knows. Th...
Just 50,000 years ago, our hunter-gatherer ancestors ventured off the African savannah and into the wider world. Now, our technology reaches far out into the cosmos. How did we get to whe...
Victor Frankenstein leads a charmed life. He and his twin brother, Konrad, and their beautiful cousin Elizabeth take lessons at home and spend their spare time fencing and horseback ridin...
Boy, did Blink get off on the wrong floor. All he wanted was to steal some breakfast for his empty belly, but instead he stumbled upon a fake kidnapping and a cell phone dropped by an "ab...
A New York Times Book Review choice as one of the 10 Best Illustrated Children's Books of 2011, an Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Award Honour Book, and finalist for the Governor General's ...
Fishing with Gubby is the marvelously illustrated, authentic account of one season in the life of a salmon fisherman. Based on actual events, the story is told by award-winning children's...
When Lucy gets a new red wagon she wants to play with it immediately, but first she must use it to bring vegetables home from the market for her mother.
Follow that road! Speed off on an eventful bicycle ride along the bold yellow road that cuts through town, by the sea and through the country. Ride up and around, along and through, out a...
A clever counting book and fable unlike any other. Ten birds are trying to figure out how to get to the other side of the river. The bird they call "Brilliant" devises a pair of stilts. T...
For the last twenty years, Paul Bélanger's poetry has been acclaimed for its emotionally charged vocabulary and philosophical elegance. In Meridian Line, the Québécois poet gives us a car...
Fiction. Translated from the French by David Scott Hamilton. Somewhere in Montréal, in the not too distant future, an obscure company offers custom-designed suicides for its clients with...
The Randall family was always a little strange. For generations, each member receives a prophetic vision of the apocalypse - but always on a different date. When the End of Days fails to...
A finalist for France's prestigious Prix Goncourt, Dirty Feet is a remarkable, inventive,and darkly compelling novel that tells the story of a man's search for the mysterious, nomadic fat...
Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art. Countering thi...
