Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation

2002 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerThunder and LightNigel SpencerThis is an intricate house of cards, delicately but expertly constructed, that shocks us in its perversity and familiarity, ultimately finding hope and redemption in the most human and basic forms of art....Amazon2002 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistImpromptu on Nun’s IslandLinda GaboriauAmazonLarry VoltLazer LederhendlerAmazonThe Milky WayLiedewy HawkeAmazonTwelve Opening ActsSheila FischmanAmazon

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

2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerMirabelJudith Cowan...Amazon2004 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistThe Alien HouseSheila FischmanAmazonThe IguanaLiedewy HawkeAmazon

2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerTruth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative TraditionFred A. ReedThe Nur community is one of the most significant religious and social movements in contemporary Turkey, with millions of adherents and a strong institutional and educational system throughout the country. This volume presents a picture of its spiritual dim...Amazon2005 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistAll that GlittersFred A. Reed and David HomelAmazonAmerica: The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Dawn of a New PowerJane BrierleyAmazonReturn from AfricaWayne GradyAmazonYesterday, at the Hotel ClarendonSusanne de Lotbinière-HarwoodAmazon

2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerVetiverHugh HazeltonThe poems in Antimatter are declamatory, politicized, experimental, occasionally concrete, recited, chanted, stuttered, and sung poetry produced by a Montreal poet-translator-visual artist who believes that poetry should bite, caress, stroke, laugh at, con...Amazon2006 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistA Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to ZionismFred A. Reed (withYakov M. Rabkin)AmazonBonbons Assortis / Assorted CandiesLinda GaboriauAmazonThe Bicycle EaterSheila FischmanAmazonThe Immaculate ConceptionLazer LederhendlerAmazon

2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerAugustino and the Choir of DestructionNigel SpencerIn Augustino and the Choir of Destruction literary legend and three-time winner of the Governor Generals Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the third volume in the prize-winning series (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Ch...Amazon2007 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistCarole Fréchette: Two Plays: John and Beatrice; Helen’s NecklaceJohn MurrellAmazonMy Sister’s Blue EyesSheila FischmanAmazonNotebook of Roses and CivilizationRobert Majzels and Erín MoureAmazonThe Decline of the Hollywood EmpireRhonda MullinsAmazon

2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerNikolskiLazer LederhendlerThis is a story of three characters--Noah, Joyce, and the anonymous narrator--as each leave their far-flung birthplaces to follow their own personal songs of migration. All three end up in Montreal, each on his or her voyage of selfdiscovery, each compell...Amazon2008 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistBeatitudesJo-Anne ElderAmazonOrfeoFred A. ReedAmazonThe Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New WorldPaul Leduc Browne and Michelle WeinrothAmazonThe Postman’s RoundLiedewy HawkeAmazon

2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerPartita for Glenn GouldDonald Winkler...Amazon2011 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistApocalypse for BeginnersLazer LederhendlerAmazonDirty FeetLazer LederhendlerAmazonExitDavid Scott HamiltonAmazonMeridian LineJudith CowanAmazon