Covering a period that runs from the founding of the colony in the early seventeenth century to the conquest of 1760, People, State, and War under the French Regime in Canadais a study of colonial warriors and warfare that examines the...
Governor General's Literary Awards 2021
Congratulations to the 2021 Governor General’s Literary Award Winners! It has been a pleasure to work with the Canada Council for the Arts to bring you the 2021 winners in accessible formats. As they have in previous years, the Council granted us early access to the winners' list, which made it possible for us to have them here for you today. The full list of winners, and further information about the GG's and Canada Council for the Arts, can be found on the Governor General's Literary Awards website.
Check out some of the 2021 finalists, below, and and read about the 14 winners here!
More titles will be added to this collection over the coming month, so feel free to check back to see what has been included. While we cannot always produce every longlisted title, if our collections do not contain a book you would like to read, or your preferred format is not available, we encourage you to send us a request! To access our request form, log into your NNELS account and search for the book you want. If we do not currently have the book in our libraries, there will be a link to the Title Request Form above the filters on any page of search results.
For more great Canadian reading, check out some of the previous years' winners and nominees of the Governor General's Literary Awards!
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Auteur:Dechêne, LouiseSommaire: - Auteur:Ahn, AngelaSommaire:
Eleven-year-old Peter Lee has one goal in life: to become a paleontologist. But in one summer, that all falls apart. Told in short, accessible journal entries and combining the humor of Timmy Failure with the poignant family dynamics of...
- Auteur:Smart, ElizabethSommaire:
«Poèmes 1938-1984» se compose de quatre parties et rassemble plusieurs décennies d’un travail poétique acharné qui témoigne de l’infatigable vigueur d’une femme dévouée à sa muse. Ayant lutté sa vie entière pour réconcilier les...
- Auteur:Butler, JennaSommaire:
I hope you're okay in there, lovelies. I hope you're warm. After five years of working with bees on her farm in northern Alberta, Jenna Butler shares with the reader the rich experience of keeping hives. Starting with a rare bright day...
- Auteur:Tapiero, OliviaSommaire:
« Dits d'insoumission afin de déboulonner assises et nations. » Résumé "Je veux écrire à marée basse." Rien du tout, c'est l'espace où tout s'effondre, la forme, le genre, l'être. S'ouvre le trou noir, auquel il faut revenir pour naître...
- Auteur:Cusk, RachelSommaire:
On a sun-soaked Parisian street, M, a mother on the brink of rebellion, wanders into a famous artist's gallery show. The artist's paintings speak—quite literally—to her, promising a liberation usually reserved for men. She returns to...
- Auteur:Quintana, ChristineSommaire:
A new year of high school is full of excitement and potential—but three teens didn't expect it to bring such a dark change to their lives. After spending a summer reinventing herself in Paris, Emma is ready for her new life to start,...
- Auteur:Moscovitch, HannahSommaire:
The archetypal student-teacher romance is cleverly turned on its head for the post-#MeToo era in this striking new play by the acclaimed author of What a Young Wife Ought to Know and Bunny. Jon, a star professor and author, is racked...
- Auteur:Salazar, RebeccaSommaire:
An urgent, powerful examination of place and the ways in which all kinds of identities exist and collide. The poems in sulphurtongue ask how to redefine desire and kinship across languages, and across polluted environments. An immigrant...
- Auteur:Dunning, NormaSommaire:
Drawing on both lived experience and cultural memory, Norma Dunning brings together six powerful new short stories centred on modern-day Inuk characters in Tainna. Ranging from homeless to extravagantly wealthy, from spiritual to jaded...
- Auteur:Parasram, JiveshSommaire:
The play's structure is based on the form of "prayers" pujas and yagnas, as practised in the Trinidadian Smarta tradition. Take d Milk, Nah? has been performed in Toronto and Vancouver, and will be performed in Ottawa, Toronto, and...
- Auteur:Wolfe, FrédérickSommaire:
Tara emménage à Montréal, enthousiasmée par sa nouvelle vie entre un emploi à temps partiel et ses séances de coaching avec Simon Lafleur pour préparer ses auditions pour l'École nationale de théâtre. D'une rencontre à l'...
- Auteur:MacKinnon, J. B.Sommaire:
In a brilliant work of imaginative nonfiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks, what would happen - to our economy, our ecology, our products, ourselves - if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might...
- Auteur:Sylvester, BasilSommaire:
The literary scavenger hunt of a lifetime, starring an endlessly endearing non-binary tween. Zed Watson loves a few things: their name (which they chose themself!), their big rambunctious family, and—oh yeah—monsters. When Zed...
- Auteur:Pésémapéo Bordeleau, VirginiaSommaire:
The first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French-available for the first time in English. In The Lover, the Lake, Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau crafts a spellbinding, sensual love story, as a response to the stereotypical...
- Auteur:Bennett, RoxannaSommaire:
In "unmeaningable", her previous Trillium Poetry Awards winning book with Gordon Hill Press, Roxanna Bennett renovated the North American disability poetics canon via her queer fusion of invisible and visible disability identities. "The...
- Auteur:Stewart, ToddSommaire:
This picture book takes place in the serenity of a forest as a new pine seedling strikes up a conversation with a nearby older tree that will last for many years. Each beautifully illustrated spread shows the two trees, one on each side...
- Auteur:Neveu, ChantalSommaire:
In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable...
- Auteur:Sheung-KingSommaire:
A young translator travels from his home in Toronto to Hong Kong, Macau, Prague, Tokyo. His unnamed lover comes with him: in restaurants and hotel rooms, they entertain each other with comic and enigmatic folk tales. Yet their verbal...
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