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The winners of the 2020 Governor General s Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021. The books above won in the English-language categories.(CBC, Canada Council for the Arts) comments
Among the winners is Cree writer Michelle Good for her debut novel
Five Little Indians and renowned Canadian American poet Anne Carson for her original work
The Governor General s Literary Awards are among Canada s oldest and most prestigious prizes. The awards, worth $25,000 each, annually recognize the best published books in Canada.
The seven English-language winners are:
Fiction: Intimate and ambitious, Michelle Good s
Five Little Indians is a heart-breaking account of lives shaped and destroyed by the residential school system. Here is powerful testimony, expertly crafted and wisely observed, tragic yet full of redemptive moments. An unflinching, compassionate and moving novel about the struggle to live and love in
Cree author and lawyer Michelle Good has won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Good was awarded the $60,000 prize at a virtual ceremony Thursday for “Five Little Indians.” The title, from HarperCollins Publishers, follows a group of residential school survivors trying to forge new lives in Vancouver. Good, 64, is a member of the […]
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Cree writer Michelle Good wins First Novel Award for Five Little Indians
Cree author and lawyer Michelle Good, shown in this handout image, has won the $60,000 Amazon Canada First Novel Award. Good was awarded the prize at a virtual ceremony Thursday for Five Little Indians, from HarperCollins Publishers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Kent Wong Photography MANDATORY CREDIT May 27, 2021 - 6:12 PM
Cree author and lawyer Michelle Good has won the Amazon Canada First Novel Award.
Good was awarded the $60,000 prize at a virtual ceremony Thursday for Five Little Indians.
The title, from HarperCollins Publishers, follows a group of residential school survivors trying to forge new lives in Vancouver.