the Canada Council for the Arts has announced the finalists for the 2005 Governor General’s Literary Awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature and translation.FictionFor more info on the other categories, as well as French nominees, the site is here. The awards are worth $15,000 each and will be announced Nov. 16, then presented by Canada's Governor General, Michaëlle Jean, in Ottawa on the 23rd.
Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Viking Canada
Golda Fried, Nellcott Is My Darling, Coach House Books
Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller, Thomas Allen
David Gilmour, A Perfect Night to Go to China, Thomas Allen
Kathy Page, Alphabet, McArthur & Company / Weidenfeld & NicholsonNonfiction
Ted Bishop, Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books, Viking Canada
Michael Mitchell, The Molly Fire, ECW Press
Edward Shorter, Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire, University of Toronto Press
John Vaillant, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed, Knopf Canada
Jessica Warner, The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist, McClelland & Stewart
Says Canada Council Chair and ballet legend Karen Kain:
These awards are about honouring great books, but they are also about encouraging Canadians of all ages to explore and discover the pleasure of reading. We want people in every part of the country to know about these books and the outstanding authors, illustrators and translators who created them.”
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