2009 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, and winning titles will be announced on November 17 (see 2009 in poetry).[1] Each winner will receive a cheque for $25,000 and a copy of their book bound by Montreal bookbinder Lise Dubois.
English-language finalists
Fiction
Poetry
Drama
- Kevin Loring, Where the Blood Mixes
- Beverley Cooper, Innocence Lost: A Play about Steven Truscott
- Joan MacLeod, Another Home Invasion
- Hannah Moscovitch, East of Berlin
- Michael Nathanson, Talk
Non-fiction
- M. G. Vassanji, A Place Within: Rediscovering India
- Randall Hansen, Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-45
- Trevor Herriot, Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
- Eric Margolis, American Raj: Liberation or Domination? (Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World)
- Eric Siblin, The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
Children's literature (text)
- Caroline Pignat, Greener Grass: The Famine Years
- Shelley Hrdlitschka, Sister Wife
- Sharon Jennings, Home Free
- Robin Stevenson, A Thousand Shades of Blue
- Tim Wynne-Jones, The Uninvited
Children's literature (illustration)
French-to-English translation
- Susan Ouriou, Pieces of Me (La liberte? Connais pasa, Charlotte Gingras)
- Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, A Slight Case of Fatigue (Un peu de fatigue, Stéphane Bourguignon)
- Jo-Anne Elder, One (Seul on est, Serge Patrice Thibodeau)
- David Homel and Fred A. Reed, Wildlives (Champagne, Monique Proulx)
- Fred A. Reed, Empire of Desire: The Abolition of Time (Le temps aboli: l'Occident et ses grands recits, Thierry Hentsch)
French-language finalists
Fiction
- Julie Mazzieri, Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot
- Jean-François Beauchemin, Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse
- Nadine Bismuth, Êtes-vous mariée à un psychopathe?
- Dominique Fortier, Du bon usage des étoiles
- Aki Shimazaki, Zakuro
Poetry
- Hélène Monette, Thérèse pour joie et orchestre
- Normand de Bellefeuille, Mon nom
- René Lapierre, Traité de physique
- Philippe More, Brouillons pour un siècle abstrait
- André Roy, Les espions de Dieu
Drama
- Suzanne Lebeau, Le bruit des os qui craquent
- Evelyne de la Chenelière, Les pieds des anges
- François Godin, Je suis d'un would be pays
- Olivier Kemeid, L'Énéide
- Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Glouglou
Non-fiction
- Nicole V. Champeau, Pointe Maligne: l'infiniment oubliée
- Djemila Benhabib, Ma vie à contre-Coran: une femme témoigne sur les islamistes
- Claude Fournier, À force de vivre: mémoires
- Céline Lafontaine, La société postmortelle: la mort, l'individu et le lien social à l'ère des communications
- Charles Le Blanc, Le complexe d'Hermès: regards philosophiques sur la traduction
Children's literature (text)
- Hervé Bouchard, Harvey
- Jocelyn Boisvert, Mort et déterré
- Pierre Chartray and Sylvie Rancourt, Simon et le chasseur de dragons
- Michèle Laframboise, La quête de Chaaas, tome 2 – Les vents de Tammerlan
- Matthieu Simard, Pavel, épisode 1 – Plus vivant que toutes les pornstars réunies
Children's literature (illustration)
- Janice Nadeau, Harvey
- Philippe Béha, Ulysse et Pénélope
- Gérard DuBois, Henri au jardin d'enfants
- Pierre Pratt, L'étoile de Sarajevo
- Rogé, La vraie histoire de Léo Pointu
English-to-French translation
- Paul Noyart, Le miel d'Harar (Sweetness in the Belly, Camilla Gibb)
- Sylvie Nicolas, Lundi sans faute (Right Away Monday, Joel Thomas Hynes)
- Hélène Rioux, Certitudes (Certainty, Madeleine Thien)
- Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Cartes postales de l'enfer (The Soul of All Great Designs, Neil Bissoondath)
- Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, La veuve (The Outlander, Gil Adamson)
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