Fanny Britt wins the Governor General’s Literary Award in the “Novels and Short stories” category for Make the sugars.
The choral novel tells the stories of the bourgeois couple Adam and Marion and Celia, a young American. An event will ensure that their destinies will be linked.
The writer had also already won a Governor General’s Prize, in the “theater” category for Kindness, in 2013.
This year, it is Mishka Lavigne who wins in the “theater” category for his play Shavings.
In poetry, Tania Langlais was awarded for While Perceval was falling, while Serge Bouchard and Mark Fortier won the prize in the “essays” category for Diesel in the veins.
In children’s literature, Avenues by Jean-François Sénéchal was crowned in the “text” category and Who owns the clouds? by Mario Brassard and Gérard DuBois was awarded in the “illustrated books” category.
Marie Frankland has illustrated herself for Poems 1938-1984, translation of The Collected Poems by Elizabeth Smart.
On the English side, the prize in the category “novels and short stories” was awarded to Norma Dunning for Tainna: The Unseen Ones.
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