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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Best Books of the Month

Discover our editors' picks for November's best new books, including marvelous new autobiographies from Anne Murray and Andre Agassi, and Jonathan Safran Foer's fierce and compassionate look at what it really means to be an omnivore.

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