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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.
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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.
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