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2009 Governor General's Literary Award Winners

This year's Governor General's Literary Awards honoured Kate Pullinger with the fiction prize for The Mistress of Nothing, her Victorian-era tale of a London lady's maid transformed by Egypt. M.G. Vassanji won for his first nonfiction book, the memoir A Place Within, and for the first time, the English-translation award went to a young adult novel, Pieces of Me. Learn more about all of this year's winners:

• Fiction: Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger
• Nonfiction: A Place Within by M.G. Vassanji
• Poetry: The Fly in Autumn by David Zieroth
• Drama: Where the Blood Mixes by Kevin Loring
• Children's Literature, Text: Greener Grass by Caroline Pignat
• Children's Literature, Illustration: Bella's Tree by Janet Russell
• Translation, French to English: Pieces of Me by Charlotte Gingras, translated by Susan Ouriou

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