2018 Governor General's Literary Award Shortlist
The Governor General's Literary Awards were launched in 1936 by Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, also known as John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps. Finalists for the awards were announced on October 3, 2018.
The awards are given in 14 categories, for both adults and children and in both official languages. The full list of nominees is available on the official website.
These are the finalists in the Adult English categories:
Drama:
Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom by Jordan Tannahill
Gertrude and Alice by Anna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry in collaboration with Karin Randoja
The Men in White by Anosh Irani
Paradise Lost by Erin Shields
This is How We Got Here by Kevin Barker
Fiction:
Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead
The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
Women Talking by Miriam Toews
Zolitude: Stories by Paige Cooper
Non-Fiction
Dead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father by Carys Cragg
Heart Berries: a Memoir by Terese Marie Mailhot
Homes: a Refugee Story by Abu Bakr al Rabeeah
Mamaskatch: a Cree Coming of Age by Darrel J. McLeod
The Wife's Tale: a Personal History by Aida Edamariam
Poetry
Because: a Lyric Memoir by Joshua Mensch
The Blue Clerk by Dionne Brand
Night Became Years by Jason Stefanik
This Wound is a World by Billy-Ray Belcourt
Wayside Sang by Cecily Nicholson
Translation (French to English)
Descent into Night by Edem Awumey, translated from the French by Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott
Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954): a Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu by Pierre Antcill, translated from the French by Vivian Felsen
Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination by Michael Bay written by Mathieu Poulin, translated from the French by Aleshia Jensen
Songs for the Cold of Heart by Eric Dupont, translated from the French by Peter McCambridge
The winners will be announced on October 30, 2018.
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