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2009 Governor General's Literary Award Winners

The Mistress of Nothing
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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.

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Canadian Voices, Canadian Stories

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Independent publisher Douglas & McIntyre is driven by the passion to create great Canadian books for all kinds of readers. Browse recent releases from some of their most inventive, compelling Canadian voices, both fictional and real, from the front lines in Afghanistan, to the political battle for the Arctic, to the struggles and pleasures of life on a Gulf Island farm.

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2009 Man Booker Prize

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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.

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