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2020 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021, and the winners were announced on June 1. , June 1, 2021. Ordinarily the award shortlists and winners would have been named in fall 2020, but were delayed due to the |
Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction; he created the Governor General's Literary Award with two award categories. Successive governors general have followed suit, establishing an award for whichever endeavour they personally found important. Only Adrienne Clarkson created three Governor General's Awards: the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Governor General's Northern Medal, and the Governor General's Medal in Architecture (though this was effectively a continuation of the Massey Medal, first established in 1950). Governor General's Literary Awards Inaugurated in 1937 for 1936 publications in two categories, the Governor General's Literary Awards have become one of Canada's most prestigious p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A History Of My Brief Body
''A History of My Brief Body'' is an autobiographical series of essays by Billy-Ray Belcourt, published July 14, 2020, by Penguin Canada. Reception ''A History of My Brief Body'' received starred reviews from ''Kirkus Reviews,'' and '' Quill & Quire'', as well as positive reviews from '' Rabble.ca,'' ''Full Stop,'' ''Cloud Literary'', '' The Washington Post,'' '' The Rumpus,'' '' Booklist'', and ''The Nerd Daily.'' ''Kirkus Reviews'', '' CBC'', ''The Globe and Mail'', and '' Largehearted Boy'' named the book one of the best of the year, and ''Book Riot'' and ''The Globe and Mail ''The Globe and Mail'' is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada. With a weekly readership of approximately 2 million in 2015, it is Canada's most widely read newspaper on weekdays and Saturdays, although it ...'' included it on other reading lists. The book also received the following accolades: * Lambda Literary Award for Gay Memoir/Biography finalist (2021) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Indigenous Matriarch Story
An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian anime convention * Ansett Australia, a major Australian airline group that is now defunct (IATA designator AN) * Apalachicola Northern Railroad (reporting mark AN) 1903–2002 ** AN Railway, a successor company, 2002– * Aryan Nations, a white supremacist religious organization * Australian National Railways Commission, an Australian rail operator from 1975 until 1987 * Antonov, a Ukrainian (formerly Soviet) aircraft manufacturing and services company, as a model prefix Entertainment and media * Antv, an Indonesian television network * ''Astronomische Nachrichten'', or ''Astronomical Notes'', an international astronomy journal * ''Avisa Nordland'', a Norwegian newspaper * '' Sweet Bean'' (あん), a 2015 Japanese film also known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Senklip Harvey
Kim Senklip Harvey is a Canadian actress, playwright and director.Alexander Varty"With Kamloopa, Kim Senklip Harvey shifts theatre's view of Indigenous women" ''The Georgia Straight'', September 19, 2018. She is most noted for her play ''Kamloopa, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story'', which won the Governor General's Award for Governor General's Award for English-language drama, English-language drama at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. CTV News, June 1, 2021. Harvey is Syilx and Tsilhqot’in with ancestral ties to the Dakelh, Secwepemc and Ktunax ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Drama
The Governor General's Award for English-language drama honours excellence in Canadian English-language playwriting. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama was divided. Because the award is presented for plays published in print, a play's eligibility for the award can sometimes be several years later than its eligibility for awards, such as the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play or the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian Play Award, which are based on the theatrical staging."Plays at the G-Gs: better late than never". ''The Globe and Mail'', October 22, 2005. Titles which compile several works by the playwright into a single volume may also be nominated for or win the award. Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Multiple winners and nominees 2 Wins * Catherine Banks * John Mighton * Colleen Murphy * Morris Panych * Sharon Pollock * Jordan Tannahill * Judith Thompson * George F. Walker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachiko Murakami
Sachiko Murakami (born 1980) is a Canadian poet."Renga renaissance rolling out in poetic perfection". ''The Province'', August 2, 2012. She is most noted for her 2008 collection ''The Invisibility Exhibit'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2008 Governor General's Awards and the Gerald Lampert Award. Murakami was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her other works include ''Rebuild'' (2011), ''Get Me Out of Here'' (2015), and ''Render'' (2020). ''Render'' was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021, and the winners were announced on June 1. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canisia Lubrin
Canisia Lubrin (born 1984) is a writer, critic, professor, poet and editor. Originally from St. Lucia, Lubrin now lives in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Life and career Lubrin was born in St. Lucia and studied in Canada, completing a bachelor's degree at York University and a graduate degree in creative writing at the University of Guelph. Her first collection of poems, ''Voodoo Hypothesis'', was published in 2017 by Wolsak & Wynn. ''Voodoo Hypothesis'' rejects the contemporary and historical systems that paint black people as inferior. The book also addresses the legacy of slavery in Lubrin's native Caribbean. ''Voodoo Hypothesis'' was nominated for the Gerald Lampert award, the Pat Lowther award and was a finalist for the Raymond Souster award. In addition ''Voodoo Hypothesis'' was named one of 2017's best books in Canadian poetry by CBC Books and one of the 10 "must-read" books of 2017 by the League of Canadian Poets. CBC Books also named Lubrin a Black Canadian writer to watch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donna Kane (writer)
Donna Kane is a Canadian poet from Rolla, British Columbia. She is most noted for her 2020 poetry collection ''Orrery'', which was a shortlisted finalist for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021, and the winners were announced on June 1. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oana Avasilichioaei
Oana Avasilichioaei is a Canadian poet and translator. Her poetry work includes ''Expeditions of a Chimæra'' (2009), a collaboration with Erín Moure, and ''We Beasts'' (2012), which won the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry. As a translator, she is most noted for winning the Governor General's Award for French to English translation in 2017 for ''Readopolis'', her translation of Bertrand Laverdure's ''Lectodôme''. Her poetry collection ''Eight Track'' was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry at the 2020 Governor General's Awards. In the same year she also received her second nomination for French to English translation for ''The Neptune Room'', her translation of Laverdure's ''La chambre neptune''. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norma Jeane Baker Of Troy
''Norma Jeane Baker of Troy'' is a "spoken and sung performance piece" written by the Canadian author and classicist Anne Carson, which debuted in New York City in 2019. The non-linear plot is loosely based upon the play ''Helen'', written by Euripides in 412 BCE and superimposes Marilyn Monroe over the legendary figure of Helen of Troy. Plot On New Year's Eve, 1963, an unnamed screenwriter works with his female stenographer in an empty New York office in order to finish his ambitious screenwriting project (the text he is writing is the same as ''Norma Jeane Baker of Troy,'' which was published by Oberon Books) based on Euripides' ''Helen.'' This version differs from the more popular story of Helen of Troy as Euripides' states that Helen never sailed to Troy with Paris, but was instead transported to Egypt by the gods while Paris brought a phantom Helen with him to Troy. In the play, the phantom is described as a cloud, and the cloud motif continues throughout. The screenwriter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Carson
Anne Carson (born June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. Trained at the University of Toronto, Carson has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada since 1979, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters. Life and work Early life Anne Carson was born in Toronto on June 21, 1950. Her father was a banker and she grew up in a number of small Canadian towns. Education In high school, a Latin instructor introduced Carson to the world and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governor General's Award For English-language Poetry
This is a list of recipients and nominees of the Governor General's Awards award for English-language poetry. The award was created in 1981 when the Governor General's Award for English language poetry or drama was divided. at . Winners and nominees 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{Governor General's Literary Awards[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |