Michelle Good says residential school remains cast shadow over GGBooks fiction win
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Author Michelle Good poses in this undated handout photo. Michelle Good should be celebrating back-to-back awards wins for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she s mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation west of Saskatoon, was awarded the $25,000 Governor General s Literary Award for fiction on Tuesday for Five Little Indians, from HarperCollins Publishers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Kent Wong Photography
It's Asian Heritage Month and the City of Guelph's bookstore The Bookshelf has a selection of books for adults and young adults readers. The books explore a variety of topics that include identity, culture, capitalist consumption and more.
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Poet Anne Carson speaks after winning the Griffin Poetry Prize for her genre-bending Red Doc , in a 2014 handout photo. Carson and author Thomas King are among the veteran writers nominated for the Governor General s Literary Awards. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Griffin Poetry Prize, Tom Sandler, MANDATORY CREDIT May 04, 2021 - 4:04 AM
Renowned poet Anne Carson and author Thomas King are among the veteran writers nominated for the Governor General s Literary Awards.
Each will face stiff competition from a rising class of wordsmiths to clinch the $25,000 prize in their respective categories.
Organizers named the finalists for the 2020 awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, on Tuesday â several months later than the usual fall announcement.
Anne Carson, Thomas King among nominees for Governor General s Literary Awards
by Adina Bresge, The Canadian Press
Posted May 4, 2021 7:04 am EDT
Last Updated May 4, 2021 at 7:14 am EDT
Renowned poet Anne Carson and author Thomas King are among the veteran writers nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Awards.
Each will face stiff competition from a rising class of wordsmiths to clinch the $25,000 prize in their respective categories.
Organizers named the finalists for the 2020 awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, on Tuesday several months later than the usual fall announcement.
They say the review process was delayed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the schedule should return to normal for the 2021 competition.