Governor General's Literary Awards 2019 winners
Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:18pm
The winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards, Canada's oldest and most prestigious literary prizes, have been announced.
Of particular note is Winnipeg's Joan Thomas, who won the Fiction award (in English) for her novel Five Wives, which we had the pleasure of launching earlier this year.
The other English-language winners include:
- Nonfiction: To the River by Don Gillmor
- Poetry: Holy Wild by Gwen Benaway
- Young people's literature (text): Stand on the Sky by Erin Bow
- Young people's literature (illustrated): Small in the City by Sydney Smith
- Translation: Birds of a Kind by Wajdi Mouawad, translated by Linda Gaboriau
- Drama: Other Side of the Game by Amanda Parris
Along with the English-language winners are seven French-language winners. For more information on those books, and on the Award in general, visit GGbooks.ca.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, WinnipegGovernor General's Literary Awards 2019 finalists
Thursday, Oct 03, 2019 at 10:47am
The finalists for the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards have been announced! The prizes are given out in seven English-language categories and in seven French-language categories.
Among the names on the shortlists are Michael Crummey, Amanda Parris, and Winnipeg authors Joan Thomas and Catherine Hunter. To see the complete selection of finalists, please visit GGbooks.ca.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, WinnipegGiller Prize 2019 shortlist
Tuesday, Oct 01, 2019 at 2:52pm
The finalists for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize have been announced:
- David Bezmozgis for Immigrant City
- Megan Gail Coles for Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club
- Michael Crummey for The Innocents
- Alix Ohlin for Dual Citizens
- Steven Price for Lampedusa
- Ian Williams for Reproduction
The winner will be announced on November 18, 2019. If you're in Winnipeg, we hope you can join us in celebrating the winner at our annual Giller Light Bash. For more information on that event and to purchase your tickets online, please see this page.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Canadian LitGiller Prize 2019 longlist
Saturday, Sep 07, 2019 at 4:28pm
The Scotiabank Giller Prize, which was created in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and recognizes excellence in Canadian literature, unveiled its longlist for the 2019 award.
The longlist includes:
- Days by Moonlight by André Alexis
- The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
- Immigrant City by David Bezmozgis
- Greenwood by Michael Christie
- Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles
- The Innocents by Michael Crummey
- Dream Sequence by Adam Foulds
- Late Breaking by K.D. Miller
- Dual Citizens by Alix Ohlin
- Lampedusa by Steven Price
- Frying Plantain by Zalika Reid-Benta
- Reproduction by Ian Williams
The shortlist will be announced on September 30th, and the winner revealed on November 18th.
If you're in Winnipeg, we hope to see you at our annual Giller Light Bash on November 18th, which takes place inside Prairie Ink Restaurant at our Grant Park location. For more details and to book your seats online, see this page.
Categories: Awards, Saskatoon, WinnipegBooker Prize 2019 shortlist
Friday, Sep 06, 2019 at 5:55pm
The finalists of this year's Booker Prize for Fiction have been announced.
Of particular note, Margaret Atwood is the only Canadian to make the 2019 shortlist. She was nominated for The Testaments, a sequel to her iconic novel The Handmaid's Tale, which will be released September 10th, 2019.
The other finalists includes:
- Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
- Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
- An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obioma
- Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
- 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak
The winner will be revealed October 14th, 2019.
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