Governor General’s Awards Finalists 2021
On October 14, the Canada Council for the Arts revealed the finalists for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Awards (#GGBooks) across seven categories, both in English and French. The English finalists are listed below. For the complete list, visit https://ggbooks.ca/#winners.
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Fictional Father
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Home Waltz
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Second Place
A Novel
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Tainna
The Unseen Ones, Short Stories
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You are Eating an Orange. You are Naked.
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A History of the Theories of Rain
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A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure
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sulphurtongue
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The Untranslatable I
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Crippled
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Selfie
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Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
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Take d Milk, Nah?
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Two Indians
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Care Of
Letters, Connections, and Cures
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Revery
A Year of Bees
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The Day the World Stops Shopping
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What I Remember, What I Know
The Life of a High Arctic Exile
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Blood Like Magic
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Firefly
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Peter Lee's Notes from the Field
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The Fabulous Zed Watson!
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Unravel
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Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know
Niibing, dgwaagig, bboong, mnookmig dbaadjigaade maanpii mzin’igning / A Book about the Seasons