Thursday, December 26

Governor General’s Literary Award

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, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

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

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerFive WivesJoan ThomasFive Wives is a riveting, often wrenching story of evangelism and its legacy, teeming with atmosphere and compelling characters and rich in emotional impact....Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistEyeMarianne MicrosAmazonLate BreakingK.D. MillerAmazonThe InnocentsMichael CrummeyAmazonThe StudentCary FaganAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerTo the River: Losing My BrotherDon GillmorAn eloquent and haunting exploration of suicide in which one of Canadas most gifted writers attempts to understand why his brother took his own life. Which leads him to another powerful question: Why are boomers killing themselves at a far greater rate th...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistCity of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the BorderlandsDan WerbAmazonFryderyk Chopin: A Life and TimesAlan WalkerAmazonSea Trial: Sailing After My FatherBrian HarveyAmazonTiny Lights for TravellersNaomi K. LewisAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

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

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerHoly WildGwen Benaway...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistHow to Avoid Huge ShipsJulie BruckAmazonSt. Boniface ElegiesCatherine HunterAmazonThe Grand River Watershed: A Folk EcologyKaren HouleAmazonTreaty #Armand Garnet RuffoAmazon
2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerBirds of a KindLinda GaboriauIs it really important to cling to our lost identities? A terrorist attack in Jerusalem puts Eitan, a young Israeli-German genetic researcher, in a coma, while his girlfriend Wahida, an Moroccan graduate student, is left to uncover his family secret that b...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) Shortlist887Louisa BlairAmazonSynapsesPablo StraussAmazonThe EmbalmerRhonda MullinsAmazonViSheila FischmanAmazon