In the end Esi Edugyan and Patrick deWitt shut out the other shortlisted titles in all three awards, with Edugyan taking the Scotiabank Giller Prize for Half Blood Blues (M) and deWitt’s The Sisters Brothers (M) taking both the Writer’s Trust Award for fiction and the Governor General’s Award for English language novel.
The Scotiabank Giller Prize just has the one award, but both the Governor General’s Literary Awards and the Writer’s Trust awards give prizes across a number of categories. Here are a few of those additional winners:
Governor General’s Awards:
Poetry: Killdeer (M) by Phil Hall
English Language Translation: Partita for Glenn Gould: an inquiry into the nature of genius (M) by Donald Winkler |
Writer’s Trust Awards:
Matt Cohen Award for lifetime achievement:
David Adams Richards (M)
Engel/Findley Award for an author mid-career:
Wayne Johnston (M)
On to other prizes . . .
We’ve actually already posted on a few award winners this fall including the ReLit Awards for independent Canadian Fiction, The Man Booker Prize and James Thurber Prize for American Humor (click the links to find those winners).
Just this week, the National Book Awards (which recognize excellence in American writing) were announced. Winners this year include:
Nonfiction: Stephen Greenblatt for The Swerve: how the world became modern (M)
Poetry: Nikky Finney for Head Off & Split (M)
Phew! That’s all I’ve got. I’m betting there is something I missed though, so feel free to add those in the comments field.
Source: http://www.thereader.ca/2008/11/book-awards-roundup-2011-version.html