Monday, May 6

Governor General’s Literary Award

2019 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerSmall in the CitySydney SmithBeing small can be overwhelming in a city. People dont see you. The loud sounds of the sirens and cyclists can be scary. And the streets are so busy it can make your brain feel like theres too much stuff in it. But if you know where to find good hiding p...Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAlbert's Quiet QuestIsabelle ArsenaultAmazonBirdsongJulie FlettAmazonHow to Give Your Cat a BathNicola Winstanley and John MartzAmazonKing MouseCary Fagan and Dena SeiferlingAmazon
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2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerStand on the SkyErin BowTwelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever....Amazon2019 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistBreak in Case of EmergencyBrian FrancisAmazonCold White SunSue Farrell HollerAmazonGirl of the Southern SeaMichelle KadarusmanAmazonThe Grey SistersJo TreggiariAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBotticelli in the Fire & Sunday in SodomJordan TannahillBotticelli in the Fire imagines the famed painter of The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, as an irrepressible seeker of love and pleasure caught between the powerful Medici family, the firebrand teachings of a zealot friar, and his young lover, Leonardo ...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistGertrude and AliceAnna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry with Karin RandojaAmazonParadise LostErin ShieldsAmazonThe Men in WhiteAnosh IraniAmazonThis Is How We Got HereKeith BarkerAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Red WordSarah Henstra"A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. As her sophomore year begins, Karen enters into the back-to-school revelry -- particularly at a fraternity c...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistBeirut Hellfire SocietyRawi HageAmazonJonny AppleseedJoshua WhiteheadAmazonWomen TalkingMiriam ToewsAmazonZolitudePaige CooperAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerMamaskatch: A Cree Coming of AgeDarrel J. McLeodAs a small boy in remote Alberta, Darrel J. McLeod is immersed in his Cree familys history, passed down in the stories of his mother, Bertha. There he is surrounded by her tales of joy and horror—of the strong men in their family, of her love for Darrel, ...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistDead Reckoning: How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My FatherCarys CraggAmazonHeart BerriesTerese Marie MailhotAmazonHomes: A Refugee StoryAbu Bakr al Rabeeah with Winnie YeungAmazonThe Wife’s Tale: A Personal HistoryAida EdemariamAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerWayside SangCecily NicholsonHistorically and politically engaged, activist and community oriented, a third book of poems from an award-winning poet....Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBecause: A Lyric MemoirJoshua MenschAmazonNight Became YearsJason StefanikAmazonThe Blue ClerkDionne BrandAmazonThis Wound is a WorldBilly-Ray BelcourtAmazon
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2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerDescent into NightPhyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistExplosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the ImaginationAleshia JensenAmazonJacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His MilieuVivian FelsenAmazonLittle BeastRhonda MullinsAmazonSongs for the Cold of HeartPeter McCambridgeAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThey Say BlueJillian TamakiNow available as a board book, the award-winning They Say Blue is a playful, poetic exploration of color and point of view In captivating paintings full of movement and transformation, we follow a young girl through a year or a day as she examines the colo...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAfricvilleShauntay Grant and Eva CampbellAmazonAt the PondWerner ZimmermannAmazonGo Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous HeroesWab Kinew and Joe MorseAmazonOcean Meets SkyThe Fan BrothersAmazon
2018 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerSweep: The Story of a Girl and her MonsterJonathan AuxierFrom the New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Auxier comes an enchanting standalone novel about the power of friendship and the beauty of finding home Nan Sparrow is one of Londons countless "climbers"--children who spend their days cleaning chimney...Amazon2018 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEbb & FlowHeather SmithAmazonLearning to BreatheJanice Lynn MatherAmazonThe Journey of Little CharlieChristopher Paul CurtisAmazonWinnie’s Great WarLindsay Mattick and Josh GreenhutAmazon
2017 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerIndian ArmHiro KanagawaThe Allmers live on native leasehold land in British Columbia, with their adopted son Wolfie, a sensitive First Nations sixteen-year-old with cerebral hypoxia. Wolfie--caught in the middle of an intense, unhappy mother and a resigned father--is the pressur...Amazon2017 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama Shortlist1979Michael HealeyAmazonThe Colony of Unrequited DreamsRobert ChafeAmazonThe Virgin TrialKate HennigAmazonWithin the GlassAnna ChattertonAmazon