October 25, 2016 - 1:08 AM
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)
News from © The Canadian Press, 2016