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GG nominees announced

This year’s Governor General’s Literary Award shortlists were announced Tuesday morning. Watch for full coverage on the Q&Q Omni site, later today, but in the meantime, here are the English-language nominees.

Fiction

  • Atmospheric Disturbances by Rivka Galchen (HarperCollins)
  • Cockroach by Rawi Hage (House of Anansi Press)
  • The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci (Doubleday Canada)
  • The Lost Highway by David Adams Richards (Doubleday Canada)
  • The Great Karoo by Fred Stenson (Doubleday Canada)

Non-fiction

  • Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford (Doubleday Canada)
  • God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery by Douglas Hunter (Doubleday Canada)
  • The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek by Sid Marty (McClelland & Stewart)
  • An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century by James Orbinski (Doubleday Canada)
  • The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need by Chris Turner (Random House of Canada)

Children’s literature – text

  • Libertad by Alma Fullerton (Fitzhenry & Whiteside)
  • The Landing by John Ibbitson (Kids Can Press)
  • Shimmerdogs by Dianne Linden (Thistledown Press)
  • Child of Dandelions by Shenaaz Nanji (Second Story Press)
  • Skim by Mariko Tamaki (Groundwood Books)

Children’s Literature – illustration

  • My Letter to the World and Other Poems by Isabelle Arsenault (Kids Can Press)
  • The Emperor’s Second Hand Clothes by Josee Bisaillon (Smith, Bonappetit & Son)
  • Yellow Moon, Apple Moon by Matt James (Groundwood Books)
  • The Owl and the Pussycat by Stéphane Jorisch (Kids Can Press)
  • Shin-chi’s Canoe by Kim LaFave (Groundwood Books)

Poetry

  • Noise from the Laundry by Weyman Chan (Talonbooks)
  • The Sentinel by A. F. Moritz (House of Anansi Press)
  • The Invisibility Exhibit by Sachiko Murakami (Talonbooks)
  • Aide-Memoire by Ruth Roach Pierson (BuschekBooks)
  • More to Keep Us Warm by Jacob Scheier (ECW Press)

Drama

  • Bone Cage by Catherine Banks (Playwrights Canada Press)
  • 10 Days on Earth by Ronnie Burkett (Playwrights Canada Press)
  • Reverend Jonah by Paul Ciufo (J. Gordon Shillingford Publishing)
  • Copper Thunderbird by Marie Clements (Talonbooks)
  • Palace of the End by Judith Thompson (Playwrights Canada Press)


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