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Governor General's Literary Award 2009

English-language books

Winners

 FICTION: Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger
The Mistress
of Nothing
Fiction

 NON-FICTION: M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji
A Place Within:
Rediscovering India
Non-fiction

POETRY: David Zieroth

David Zieroth
The Fly in
Autumn
Poetry

 DRAMA: Kevin Loring

Kevin Loring
Where the
Blood Mixes
Drama

 CHILDREN'S LITERATURE – TEXT: Caroline Pignat

Caroline Pignat
Greener Grass:
The Famine
Years
Children's Literature –Text

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE ILLUSTRATION: Jirina Marton

Jirina Marton
Bella’s Tree
Children's Literature –
Illustration

 TRANSLATION FRENCH TO ENGLISH: Susan Ouriou

Susan Ouriou
Pieces of Me
Translation –
French to English



    


Finalists

 Fiction

Michael Crummey

Michael Crummey
Galore
Doubleday Canada

Annabel Lyon The Golden Mean

Annabel Lyon
The Golden Mean
Random House
Canada

Alice Munro

Alice Munro
Too Much
Happiness
McClelland &
Stewart

Kate Pullinger

Kate Pullinger
The Mistress of
Nothing
McArthur &
Company

 Deborah Willis

Deborah Willis
Vanishing and
Other Stories
Penguin Group
(Canada)

  

 


  Non-fiction

Randall Hansen

Randall Hansen
Fire and Fury:
The Allied
bombing of
Germany,
1942-45
Doubleday Canada

 Trevor Herriot

Trevor Herriot
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
HarperCollins Publishers / A Phyllis Bruce book

Eric S. Margolis

Eric S.
Margolis
American Raj:
liberation or
domination?
Key Porter Books

Eric Siblin

Eric Siblin
The Cello Suites:
J.S. Bach, Pablo
Casals, and the
Search for
a Baroque
masterpiece
House of Anansi
Press

 M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji
A Place Within:
Rediscovering India
Doubleday Canada

  

 


  Poetry

David W. McFadden

David W.
McFadden
Be Calm, Honey
Mansfield Press

Philip Kevin Paul

Philip Kevin
Paul
Little Hunger
Nightwood Editions

Sina Queyras

Sina Queyras
Expressway
Coach House Books

Carmine Starnino

Carmine Starnino
This Way Out
Gaspereau Press

 David Zieroth

David Zieroth
The Fly in
Autumn
Harbour Publishing

  

 


  Drama

Beverley Cooper

Beverley Cooper
Innocence Lost:
A Play about
Steven Truscott
Scirocco Drama/
J.Gordon Shillingford
Publishing Group 

 Kevin Loring

Kevin Loring
Where the Blood
Mixes
Talonbooks

Joan MacLeod

Joan MacLeod
Another Home
Invasion
Talonbooks

Hannah Moscovitch

Hannah Moscovitch
East of Berlin
Playwrights Canada
Press

 Michael Nathanson

Michael Nathanson
Talk
Playwrights Canada
Press

 


  Children’s Literature — Text

Shelley Hrdlitschka

Shelley Hrdlitschka
Sister Wife
Orca Book Publishers

Sharon Jennings

Sharon Jennings
Home Free
Second Story Press

Caroline Pignat

Caroline Pignat
Greener Grass:
The Famine Years
Red Deer Press

Robin Stevenson

Robin Stevenson
A Thousand
Shades of Blue
Orca Book Publishers

 Tim Wynne-Jones

Tim
Wynne-Jones
The Uninvited
Candlewick Press

 


  Children’s Literature — Illustration

Rachel Berman

Rachel Berman
Bradley McGogg,
the Very Fine
Frog
Tundra Books

Irene Luxbacher

Irene Luxbacher
The Imaginary
Garden
Kids Can Press

Jirina Marton

Jirina Marton
Bella’s Tree
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi
Press

Luc Melanson

Luc Melanson
My Great Big
Mamma
Groundwood Books /
House of Anansi
Press

 Ningeokuluk Teevee

Ningeokuluk Teevee
Alego
Groundwood Books / House of Anansi
Press

 


  Translation – French to English

Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott

Phyllis Aronoff and
Howard Scott
A Slight Case of
Fatigue
Talonbooks

Jo-Anne Elder

Jo-Anne Elder
One
Goose Lane Editions

David Homel and Fred A. Reed

David Homel
and Fred A.
Reed
Wildlives
Douglas & McIntyre

Susan Ouriou

Susan Ouriou
Pieces of Me
Kids Can Press

 Fred A. Reed

Fred A. Reed
Empire of Desire:
The Abolition of
Time
Talonbooks