The 2009 shortlist for the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been released.
The GG’s (as they are affectionately known) are given to the best English and French language books in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children’s Literature (text), Children’s Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English and English to French). Local writers, Stephen Kimber and Alice Walsh are on juries this year.
Fiction (English)
Galore by Michael Crummey
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis
Nonfiction (English)
Fire and Fury: the Allied bombing of Germany 1942-45 by Randall Hansen
Grass, Sky, Song: promise and peril in the world of grassland birds by Trevor Herriot
American Raj: liberation or domination by Eric S. Margolis
A Place Within: rediscovering India by M. G. Vassanji
