Governor General's Shortlist 2009

The 2009 shortlist for the Governor General's Literary Awards have been released.

The GG's (as they are affectionately known) are given to the best English and French language books in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English and English to French). Local writers, Stephen Kimber and Alice Walsh are on juries this year.

Fiction (English)

Galore by Michael Crummey

The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger

Vanishing and Other Stories by Deborah Willis

Nonfiction (English)

Fire and Fury: the Allied bombing of Germany 1942-45 by Randall Hansen

Grass, Sky, Song: promise and peril in the world of grassland birds by Trevor Herriot

American Raj: liberation or domination by Eric S. Margolis

The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the search for a Baroque masterpiece by Eric Siblin

A Place Within: rediscovering India by M. G. Vassanji