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The 2014 Governor General's Award Winners Announced

Submitted by kateburgess on November 18, 2014 - 10:55am

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Governor General's award Winners (Photo Source: Canada Council for the Arts)

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the seven English-language winners of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Awards. The winning authors, illustrators and translators each received a $25,000 prize, with each finalist taking home $1,000. For a complete list of winners in both French and English, and to watch a video of the announcement, please visit the Canada Council's GG website.

The Winners of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Awards

Fiction

Thomas King for The Back of the Turtle (HarperCollins Publishers)

Poetry

Arleen Paré for Lake of Two Mountains (Brick Books)

Drama

Jordan Tannahill for Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays (Playwrights Canada Press)

Non-fiction

Michael Harris for The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection (HarperCollins Publishers)

Children’s Literature — Text

Raziel Reid for When Everything Feels like the Movies (Arsenal Pulp Press)

Children’s Literature — Illustration

Jillian Tamaki for This One Summer (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press)

Translation

Peter Feldstein for Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (McGill-Queen's University Press)

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