2013 Governor General's Awards

Canadian literary award

The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2,[1] and the winners were announced on November 13.[2] Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.[1]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
  • Kenneth Bonert, The Lion Seeker
  • Joseph Boyden, The Orenda
  • Colin McAdam, A Beautiful Truth
  • Shyam Selvadurai, The Hungry Ghosts
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Sandra Djwa, A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
  • Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
  • Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
  • Allen Smutylo, The Memory of Water
  • Priscila Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
Poetry Blue ribbon Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs
  • Austin Clarke, Where the Sun Shines Best
  • Adam Dickinson, The Polymers
  • Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper
  • Russell Thornton, Birds, Metal, Stones & Rain
Drama Blue ribbon Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays
  • Meg Braem, Blood: A Scientific Romance
  • Kate Hewlett, The Swearing Jar
  • Lawrence Jeffery, Frenchtown
  • Joseph Jomo Pierre, Shakespeare's Nigga
Children's literature Blue ribbon Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
  • Beverley Brenna, The White Bicycle
  • Shane Peacock, Becoming Holmes
  • Jean E. Pendziwol, Once Upon a Northern Night
  • Valerie Sherrard, Counting Back from Nine
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Matt James, Northwest Passage
French to English translation Blue ribbon Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs)

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Yvon Rivard, Aimer, enseigner
  • Alain Deneault, Gouvernance: le management totalitaire
  • Jean-Jacques Pelletier, La fabrique de l'extrême : les pratiques ordinaires de l'excès
  • Dominique Perron, L'Alberta autophage : identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l'Ouest canadien
  • Joseph Yvon Thériault, Évangéline : contes d'Amérique
Poetry Blue ribbon René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement
Drama Blue ribbon Fanny Britt, Bienveillance
Children's literature Blue ribbon Geneviève Mativat, À l'ombre de la grande maison
  • Camille Bouchard, D'or et de poussière
  • Fanny Britt, Jane, le renard et moi
  • Emmanuelle Caron, Gladys et Vova
  • Lili Chartrand, Le monde fabuleux de Monsieur Fred
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard et moi
  • Jacinthe Chevalier, Aujourd'hui, le ciel
  • Marianne Dubuc, Au carnaval des animaux
  • Stéphane Jorisch, Quand je serai grand
  • Rogé, Mingan, mon village
English to French translation Blue ribbon Sophie Voillot, L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick, Far to Go)

References

  1. ^ a b "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries". Toronto Star, November 13, 2013.

External links

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