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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDo Not Say We Have NothingMadeleine ThienWinner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor Generals Literary Award for Fiction, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and longlisted for the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, this extraordinary novel tells the story of...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistThe BreakKatherena VermetteAmazonThe ParcelAnosh IraniAmazonWillem de Kooning's PaintbrushKerry Lee PowellAmazonYiddish for PiratesGary BarwinAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerA World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905Bill WaiserA World We Have Lost examines the early history of Saskatchewan through an Aboriginal and environmental lens. Indian and mixed--descent peoples played leading roles in the story-as did the land and climate. Despite the growing British and Canadian presence...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBrown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)Kamal Al-SolayleeAmazonFirewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)Harold R. JohnsonAmazonIn-Between Days: A Memoir About Living with CancerTeva HarrisonAmazonMarconi: The Man Who Networked the WorldMarc RaboyAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Waking Comes LateSteven HeightonThese are poems that trouble over the idea of failure even as they continually recommit to the present moment. This is fierce music performed in a minor key....Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMarry & BurnRachel RoseAmazonPrairie HarbourGarry Thomas MorseAmazonRegeneration MachineJoe DenhamAmazonThroaty WipesSusan HolbrookAmazon

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2016 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerThe Party WallLazer LederhendlerShortlisted for the 2016 Giller Prize Selected for Indies Introduce Summer/Fall 2016 Catherine Lerouxs first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns t...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistGuanoRhonda MullinsAmazonThe Goddess of FirefliesNeil SmithAmazon

22Mar

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All Book Awards, Book Awards, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerTokyo Digs a GardenJon-Erik Lappano and Kellen HatanakaWinner of the 2016 Governor Generals Literary Award for Young Peoples Literature — Illustrated Books Tokyo lives in a small house between giant buildings with his family and his cat, Kevin. For years, highways and skyscrapers have been built up around th...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistA Hungry Lion or A Dwindling Assortment of AnimalsLucy Ruth CumminsAmazonOokoEsmé ShapiroAmazonThe BranchMireille Messier and Pierre PrattAmazonThe White Cat and the MonkJo Ellen Bogart and Sydney SmithAmazon

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2016 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

2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerCalvinMartine LeavittSeventeen-year-old Calvin has always known his fate is linked to the comic book character from Calvin & Hobbes. He was born on the day the last strip was published; his grandpa left a stuffed tiger named Hobbes in his crib; and he even has a best friend na...Amazon2016 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistA Thousand NightsE.K. JohnstonAmazonOnce in a Town Called MothTrilby KentAmazonThe Emperor of Any PlaceTim Wynne-JonesAmazonThe UnquietMikaela EverettAmazon

22Mar

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Winnercarried away on the crest of a waveDavid YeeFrom the shore of Ko Phi Phi in Thailand to a suburb in Utah to a mysterious Kafkaesque hole in the ground, carried away on the crest of a wave gives us brief glimpses into the lives of a sphinx-like escort, a grieving father, a conflicted priest, brothers...Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistMahmoudTara Grammy and Tom Arthur DavisAmazonOdd DucksBryden MacDonaldAmazonThe Gravitational Pull of Bernice TrimbleBeth GrahamAmazonWinners and LosersMarcus Youssef and James LongAmazon

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDaddy Lenin and Other StoriesGuy VanderhaegheAmong these nine stories: A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actors penchant for hiding behind a role, on...Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistHow You Were BornKate CayleyAmazonOutlineRachel CuskAmazonThe Evening ChorusHelen HumphreysAmazonThe Winter FamilyClifford JackmanAmazon

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerBee Time: Lessons from the HiveMark L. WinstonBee Time presents his reflections on three decades spent studying these remarkable creatures, and on the lessons they can teach about how humans might better interact with one another and the natural world, from the boardroom to urban ......Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistDispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at WarDavid HaltonAmazonNorval Morrisseau: Man Changing into ThunderbirdArmand Garnet RuffoAmazonParty of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical MakeoverMichael HarrisAmazonThe Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written WordTed BishopAmazon

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2015 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerMy Shoes Are Killing MeRobyn SarahWinner of the 2015 Governor Generals Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure of th...Amazon2015 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistCrossoverM. Travis LaneAmazonFor Your Safety Please Hold OnKayla CzagaAmazonInfinite Citizen of the Shaking TentLiz HowardAmazonWashitaPatrick LaneAmazon