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THOMAS KING wins the 2014 Governor General's Award for Fiction

Tuesday, Nov 18, 2014 at 3:04pm

The recipient of this year's Governor General's Award for Fiction is author Thomas King! King is known for a number of wildly successful books, including his non-fiction title The Inconvenient Indian. He won the 2014 Governor General's award for his newest novel, The Back of the Turtle.

Other 2014 winners include:

  • Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a
    World of Constant Connection (Non-Fiction)
  • Arleen Paré, Lake of Two Mountains (Poetry)
  • Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (Drama)
  • Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels like the Movies (Children's
    Literature - text)
  • Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer (Children's Literature - Illustration)
  • Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (Translation
    - French to English)

For more details on the Governor General's Awards, visit ggbooks.ca.

Categories: Awards, Authors, Saskatoon, Winnipeg

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