Tuesday, November 26

Book Awards By Year

2004 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerAirbornKenneth OppelSailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crows nest, being the ships eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and thered been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were lea...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEstherSharon E. McKayAmazonHeck SuperheroMartine LeavittAmazonRed Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural RevolutionAnge ZhangAmazonThe Wolf KingJudd PalmerAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Song Within My HeartAllen SappListen to the beating drum It tells a hundred stories Of our people, of our homeland Some of birds and beasts and sweet grass. Close your eyes and listen You might come to hear a story That no one hears but you alone A story of your very own. Renowned Cree...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistFour Pictures by Emily CarrNicolas DebonAmazonImagine a NightRob GonsalvesAmazonSindbad’s Secret: From the Tales of the Thousand and One NightsLudmila ZemanAmazonThe Subway MouseBarbara ReidAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerEinstein’s GiftVern ThiessenA scientist who enhances life with his work and knowledge but discovers too late that knowledge in the wrong hands brings death. The ideal of science to serve humanity is shown in sharp contrast against the reality of political will, nationalism, and war. ...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBurning VisionMarie ClementsAmazonLast RomanticsMichael Lewis MacLennanAmazonProkBrian DraderAmazonRice BoySunil KuruvillaAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerElleDouglas GloverA 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor Generals Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of fi...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistGarbo LaughsElizabeth HayAmazonOryx and CrakeMargaret AtwoodAmazonPrivate ViewJean McNeilAmazonTen Thousand LoversEdeet RavelAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerParis 1919: Six Months that Changed the WorldMargaret MacMillanAfter the war to end all wars, men and women from all over the world converged on Paris for the Peace Conference. At its heart were the three great powers - Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau - but thousands of others came too, each with a differe...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold PringleAndrew ClarkAmazonMichelangelo and the Pope’s CeilingRoss KingAmazonMissing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished SisterMaggie de VriesAmazonWhile Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the WorldAndrew CohenAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerKill-siteTim LilburnBy the winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Best Book of the Year To his virtuoso collection of new poems, Tim Lilburn brings a philosophers mind and the eyes and ears of a marsh hawk. This series of earthy meditations makes the strange familiar and ...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistLoopAnne SimpsonAmazonMy Father’s CupTom WaymanAmazonNothing Fell Today But RainEvan JonesAmazonThe Witness GhostTim BowlingAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerMemoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s LifeJane BrierleyThis is the absorbing and candid story of Marcel Trudels journey from the small village of Saint-Narcisse-de-Champlain, where he was born in 1917, to become one of Canadas major historians. Trudel recreates his youth as the child of a poor family that br...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistA Sunday at the Pool in KigaliPatricia ClaxtonAmazonNecessary BetrayalsSusan OuriouAmazonTales from Dog Island: St. Pierre et MiquelonJo-Anne ElderAmazonThe Heart Is an Involuntary MuscleDavid Homel and Fred A. ReedAmazon
2003 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerStitchesGlen HuserTravis has been waiting to get to junior high. When that time finally comes, things are both better, and worse, than he had hoped. On the plus side are two great new teachers. On the minus side theres Shon Docker, Traviss old tormenter from elementary sc...Amazon2003 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistAnn and SeamusKevin MajorAmazonThe MaestroJudd PalmerAmazonThe Several Lives of Orphan JackSarah EllisAmazonTheories of RelativityBarbara Haworth-AttardAmazon
2020 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerOther Side of the GameAmanda ParrisIn this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their voices and demanding to ...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist1 Hour PhotoTetsuro ShigematsuAmazonThanks for GivingKevin LoringAmazonThe Fighting SeasonSean Harris OliverAmazonWhat a Young Wife Ought to KnowHannah MoscovitchAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, British Science Fiction Association, BSFA - Novel

2019 BSFA – Novel Winner and Nominees

2019 BSFA - Novel WinnerEmbers of WarGareth L. PowellFrom BSFA Award winning author Gareth L. Powell comes the first in a new epic sci-fi trilogy exploring the legacies of war The sentient warship Trouble Dog was built for violence, yet following a brutal war, she is disgusted by her role in a genocide. Stri...Amazon2019 BSFA - Novel ShortlistBefore MarsEmma NewmanAmazonEurope at DawnDave HutchinsonAmazonRevenant GunYoon Ha LeeAmazonRosewaterTade ThompsonAmazon