2009 Governor General's Awards
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The shortlisted nominees for the 2009 Governor General's Award
s for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, and winning titles will be announced on November 17 (see 2009 in poetry
). Each winner will receive a cheque for $25,000 and a copy of their book bound by Montreal bookbinder Lise Dubois.
Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...
s for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, and winning titles will be announced on November 17 (see 2009 in poetry
2009 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature .-Events:* January 5 – The Turkish government announces it will posthumously restore the citizenship it had stripped from influential poet Nazim Hikmet, a Marxist who died in 1963 as an exile in the Soviet...
). Each winner will receive a cheque for $25,000 and a copy of their book bound by Montreal bookbinder Lise Dubois.
Fiction
- Kate PullingerKate PullingerKate Pullinger is a Canadian novelist and author of digital fiction currently lecturing at De Montfort University, England. She was born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, and went to high school on Vancouver Island. She dropped out of McGill University, Montreal after a year and a half and...
, The Mistress of Nothing - Michael CrummeyMichael CrummeyMichael Crummey is a Canadian poet and writer.Born in Buchans, Newfoundland and Labrador, Crummey grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he received a B.A. in...
, Galore - Annabel LyonAnnabel LyonAnnabel Lyon is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She's published two collections of short fiction, two young adult novels, and an adult historical novel, The Golden Mean.-Life and work:...
, The Golden Mean - Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
, Too Much HappinessToo Much HappinessToo Much Happiness is a short story collection by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published on August 25, 2009 by McClelland and Stewart's Douglas Gibson Books imprint.... - Deborah Willis, Vanishing and Other Stories
Poetry
- David ZierothDavid ZierothDavid Dale Zieroth is a Canadian poet. He won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 1999 for How I Joined Humanity at Last, and the Governor General's Award for English language poetry in 2009 for The Fly in Autumn.-Works:*Clearing: Poems from a Journey *Mid-River *When the Stones Fly Up *The Weight...
, The Fly in Autumn - David McFaddenDavid McFaddenDavid William McFadden is a Canadian poet, fiction writer, and travel writer. He was born in Hamilton, Ontario and first started working there as a proofreader for the Hamilton Spectator newspaper. As he grew more renowned as a poet he quit the newspaper and became a full-time writer in 1976...
, Be Calm, Honey - Philip Kevin Paul, Little Hunger
- Sina QueyrasSina QueyrasSina Queyras is a Canadian poet. Her third collection of poetry, Lemon Hound, received the Pat Lowther Award and a Lambda Literary Award.In 2005 she edited Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets for Persea Books, the first anthology of Canadian poetry to be published by a U.S. press...
, Expressway - Carmine StarninoCarmine StarninoCarmine Starnino is a Canadian poet, essayist, educator, and editor.He was born in Montreal, Quebec, into an Italian heritage. His first poetry collection The New World was nominated for the 1997 A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry and the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award...
, This Way Out
Drama
- Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes
- Beverley Cooper, Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott
- Joan MacLeod, Another Home Invasion
- Hannah MoscovitchHannah MoscovitchHannah Moscovitch is a Canadian playwright. She is best known for her plays East of Berlin, Essay, and The Russian Play.-Life and career:...
, East of Berlin - Michael Nathanson, Talk
Non-fiction
- M. G. VassanjiM. G. VassanjiMoyez G. Vassanji, CM is a novelist and editor, who writes under the name M. G. Vassanji. A citizen of Canada, Vassanji's identity easily straddles three continents.M. G. Vassanji was born in Kenya and raised in Tanzania...
, A Place Within: Rediscovering India - Randall HansenRandall HansenRandall Hansen is a political scientist and historian at the University of Toronto, where he has held a Canada Research Chair in Political Science since 2005. He is a Full Professor and is jointly appointed to the School of Public Policy and Governance....
, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-45 - Trevor Herriot, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
- Eric MargolisEric MargolisEric S. Margolis is an American-born journalist and writer. For 27 years, ending in 2010, he was a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of newspapers, writing mainly about the Middle East, South Asia and Islam. He contributes to the Huffington Post and appears frequently on Canadian...
, American Raj: Liberation or Domination? (Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World) - Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Children's literature (text)
- Caroline PignatCaroline PignatCaroline Pignat is an Irish Canadian author and English teacher.Pignat a graduate of Ottawa University. Her work has been published in magazines, including Highlights for Children, Clubhouse and Clubhouse Jr., Storyteller, Guideposts, Guideposts for Kids, Living Faith for Kids, Capital Parent, The...
, Greener Grass: The Famine Years - Shelley Hrdlitschka, Sister Wife
- Sharon Jennings, Home Free
- Robin Stevenson, A Thousand Shades of Blue
- Tim Wynne-JonesTim Wynne-JonesTim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...
, The Uninvited
Children's literature (illustration)
- Jirina Marton, Bella's Tree
- Rachel BermanRachel BermanRachel Berman, born in 1946 in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, is an American-Canadian painter and children's book illustrator. She has lived and worked in Canada, the United States, and Ireland....
, Bradley McGogg, the Very Fine Frog - Irene LuxbacherIrene LuxbacherIrene Luxbacher, born December 10, 1970 in Toronto, Canada is an artist, an author and children's book illustrator.After graduating with a degree in Art History from Queen’s University, she studied Fine Art at Emily Carr University of Art and Design...
, The Imaginary Garden - Luc Melanson, My Great Big Mamma
- Ningeokuluk TeeveeNingeokuluk TeeveeNingeokuluk Teevee is a Canadian Inuk writer and artist. Her first children's book, Alego, is currently a nominee for the 2009 Governor General's Award for children's literature illustration.-References:...
, Alego
French-to-English translation
- Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (La liberte? Connais pasa, Charlotte Gingras)
- Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, A Slight Case of Fatigue (Un peu de fatigue, Stéphane Bourguignon)
- Jo-Anne Elder, One (Seul on est, Serge Patrice Thibodeau)
- David Homel and Fred A. ReedFred A. ReedFred A. Reed is a journalist and translator of literature who has published and translated several books.-Books:*Persian postcards: Iran after Khomemi. Talonbooks. 1994. ISBN 0889224439...
, Wildlives (Champagne, Monique ProulxMonique ProulxMonique Proulx is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter.-Works:*Sans cœur et sans reproche, *Le sexe des étoiles **The Sex of the Stars...
) - Fred A. ReedFred A. ReedFred A. Reed is a journalist and translator of literature who has published and translated several books.-Books:*Persian postcards: Iran after Khomemi. Talonbooks. 1994. ISBN 0889224439...
, Empire of Desire: The Abolition of Time (Le temps aboli: l'Occident et ses grands recits, Thierry Hentsch)
Fiction
- Julie Mazzieri, Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot
- Jean-François Beauchemin, Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse
- Nadine Bismuth, Êtes-vous mariée à un psychopathe?
- Dominique Fortier, Du bon usage des étoiles
- Aki ShimazakiAki ShimazakiAki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. She has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French, since 1991....
, Zakuro
Poetry
- Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre
- Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom
- René Lapierre, Traité de physique
- Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait
- André Roy, Les espions de Dieu
Drama
- Suzanne Lebeau, Le bruit des os qui craquent
- Evelyne de la Chenelière, Les pieds des anges
- François Godin, Je suis d'un would be pays
- Olivier Kemeid, L'Énéide
- Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Glouglou
Non-fiction
- Nicole V. Champeau, Pointe Maligne: l'infiniment oubliée
- Djemila Benhabib, Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes
- Claude FournierClaude Fournier (filmmaker)Claude Fournier is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, editor and cinematographer. He is one of the forerunners of the Cinema of Quebec. He is the twin brother of Guy Fournier....
, À force de vivre: mémoires - Céline Lafontaine, La société postmortelle: la mort, l'individu et le lien social à l'ère des communications
- Charles Le Blanc, Le complexe d'Hermès: regards philosophiques sur la traduction
Children's literature (text)
- Hervé Bouchard, Harvey
- Jocelyn Boisvert, Mort et déterré
- Pierre Chartray and Sylvie Rancourt, Simon et le chasseur de dragons
- Michèle Laframboise, La quête de Chaaas, tome 2 – Les vents de Tammerlan
- Matthieu Simard, Pavel, épisode 1 – Plus vivant que toutes les pornstars réunies
Children's literature (illustration)
- Janice Nadeau, Harvey
- Philippe Béha, Ulysse et Pénélope
- Gérard DuBois, Henri au jardin d'enfants
- Pierre Pratt, L'étoile de Sarajevo
- RogéRogeRoge is a village in the municipality of Požega, western Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 424 people. There are large numbers of dogs and cats that inhabit the town. As of 1990 a few of the older cats hold skilled jobs in the village bank and the intensely...
, La vraie histoire de Léo Pointu
English-to-French translation
- Paul Noyart, Le miel d'Harar (Sweetness in the Belly, Camilla GibbCamilla GibbCamilla Gibb is a writer living in Toronto.Born in London, England, she grew up in Toronto and studied at the North Toronto Collegiate Institute and the Jarvis Collegiate Institute...
) - Sylvie Nicolas, Lundi sans faute (Right Away Monday, Joel Thomas HynesJoel Thomas HynesJoel Thomas Hynes is a Canadian writer and performer. He is usually credited as Joel Hynes when acting, but as Joel Thomas Hynes on book covers....
) - Hélène Rioux, Certitudes (Certainty, Madeleine ThienMadeleine ThienMadeleine Thien is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, she was educated at Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. In 2001 she was awarded the Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award for most promising Canadian writer under...
) - Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Cartes postales de l'enfer (The Soul of All Great Designs, Neil BissoondathNeil BissoondathNeil Devindra Bissoondath is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. He is a noted writer of fiction, and also an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism. He is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul.-Biography:Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in...
) - Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, La veuve (The Outlander, Gil AdamsonGil AdamsonGil Adamson is a Canadian writer. She won the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2008 for her 2007 novel The Outlander.Adamson's first published work was Primitive, a volume of poetry, in 1991...
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