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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:
The American Library Association announced its 2009 children's book awards on January 26, including the biggest children's prizes of the year, the Newbery Medal for literature and the Caldecott Medal for illustration. This year, Neil Gaiman took the Newbery for The Graveyard Book, while the Caldecott went to Beth Krommes for The House in the Night.
2009 Giller Prize: Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop's Man
On November 10, Canada's most coveted fiction prize went to veteran CBC broadcast journalist Linden MacIntyre for The Bishop's Man, a sensitively told story of crimes and cover-up in a Cape Breton Catholic church.
The 2009 winner of the Man Booker Prize, the UK's top literary prize and the most watched single-book award in the English-speaking world, was announced on October 6: Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel.
Congratulations to Joan Thomas, winner of the 33rd annual Amazon.ca First Novel Award for Reading by Lightning. Head judge Aritha van Herk called the book "a fabulous novel, full of grace and delicious discovery."
