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List of Governor General's Literary Award winners

TORONTO - Winners were announced Tuesday for the Governor General's Literary Awards. The awards will be presented in Ottawa on Nov. 30.

Here is the complete list of English-language winners:

FICTION:

— "Do Not Say We Have Nothing" by Madeleine Thien (Montreal)

NON-FICTION:

— "A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905" by Bill Waiser (Saskatoon)

POETRY:

— "The Waking Comes Late" by Steven Heighton (Kingston, Ont.)

DRAMA:

— "Pig Girl" by Colleen Murphy (Toronto)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE (TEXT):

— "Calvin" by Martine Leavitt (High River, Alta.)

YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE (ILLUSTRATED BOOKS):

— "Tokyo Digs a Garden" by Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka (Guelph, Ont./Stratford, Ont.)

TRANSLATION (FRENCH TO ENGLISH):

— Lazer Lederhendler for "The Party Wall" (Montreal) (Translation of "Le mur mitoyen" by Catherine Leroux)

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