The Canada Council for the Arts today announced the winners of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Awards.
The winners of the English awards are:
Fiction:
Sisters Brothers by
Nonfiction:
Mordecai: The Life and Times by
Poetry:
Killdeer by
Drama:
If We Were Birds by
Children's Text:
From Then to Now by
Children's Illustration:
Ten Birds by
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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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
