Alain Farah, Dominique Fortier, Larry Tremblay, Maryse Andraos and Charlotte Biron are the five finalists this year for the prestigious Governor General’s Literary Awards in the Novels and short stories category.
The five writers were selected by the jury for their respective novels A thousand secrets, a thousand dangers, The white shadows, End Table of Love, Without shelter and radio garden.
In the Essays category, the finalists are: Marie-Pier Lafontaine for Cock the Rage; Jean-Francois Beauchemin for The source and the reed; Sylveline Bourion for The Roman Road; Marie-Helene Voyer for The habit of ruins. The coronation of oblivion and ugliness in Quebec; and Clément de Gaulejac for You know what I mean ?.
In children’s literature, the three jurors selected Cancer ascending Ostrich, by Julie Champagne; Drawing in the margins and other ghost activities, by Carolanne Foucher; The rain of others, by Daphne B.; Bubbles, by Reynald Cantin; and November diaries, by Marie-Helene Jarry.
Governor General’s Awards are also given in the Poetry, Theatre, Children’s Literature – Illustrated Book categories, and in English-to-French translation. The complete list of finalists is published on the ggbooks.ca website. A peer assessment committee is assigned to each of the seven categories, in French and in English. The three members of each committee select finalists from eligible books published between 1er August 2021 and July 31, 2022.
Finalists already receive a $1,000 scholarship. The winners, who receive a $25,000 prize, will be announced on November 16.
The Governor General’s Literary Awards, created in 1936, have been funded and administered since 1959 by the Canada Council for the Arts.