De nos jours, on ne défend plus l’idée que les peuples autochtones conquis et colonisés étaient sans culture ou sans histoire, tout en reconnaissant néanmoins que leur histoire était obscure et leur univers culturel opaque pour les...
Governor General's Literary Awards 2016
Congratulations to the 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award Winners! It has been a pleasure to work with the Canada Council for the Arts to bring you the 2016 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.
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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Author:Viau, RolandSummary: - Author:Fortier, DominiqueSummary:
Aux belles heures de sa bibliothèque, le Mont-Saint-Michel était connu comme la Cité des livres. C'est là, entre les murs gris de l'abbaye, que trouva refuge, au quinzième siècle, un peintre hanté par le souvenir de celle qu'il aimait....
- Author:Leavitt, MartineSummary:
In the town of Leamington, Ontario, a seventeen-year-old boy is suddenly stricken by a schizophrenic episode and wakes up in hospital. The boy’s name is Calvin, and he is plagued by hallucinations. As the hallucinations persist, Calvin...
- Author:Thien, MadeleineSummary:
At the centre of this epic tale are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing...
- Author:Gilbert, FrançoisSummary:
Mikael Dionne a seize ans, bientôt dix-sept. Il a quitté la Beauce pour une dérive montréalaise qui l'a conduit, après un vol à l'étalage raté, à devenir un dévot de Krishna. Quand il débarque dans son village natal vêtu en moine, le...
- Author:Mouawad, WajdiSummary:
Wahid, metteur en scène de théâtre, entreprend de monter la tragédie de Sophocle Philoctète. Alors que le décès du poète Robert Davreu, qui était chargé d'en assurer une nouvelle traduction, complique son travail, il décide de partir...
- Author:Bellefeuille, Normand deSummary:
Après «Le poème est une maison de long séjour», «Le poème est une maison de bord de mer» constitue le second volet de la trilogie «Catalogues affectueux». L'ensemble se veut une réflexion à la fois théorique et lyrique sur l'inscription...
- Author:Murphy, ColleenSummary:
At 4:00 a.m. on a secluded farm, a woman fights to take her life back from a serial killer as her desperate sister and a haunted police officer reach across time and distance in an attempt to rescue her.
- Author:Leroux, CatherineSummary:
Catherine Leroux’s The Party Wall shifts between and ties together stories about pairs joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she may not be the biological mother of her own son despite having given birth to him; a brother and...
- Author:Heighton, StevenSummary:
A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just...
- Author:Holbrook, Susan L.Summary:
In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations...
- Author:Powell, Kerry-LeeSummary:
"Ranging from an island holiday gone wrong to a dive bar on the upswing to a yuppie mother in a pricey subdivision seeing her worst fears come true, these deftly written stories are populated by barkeeps, good men down on their luck,...
- Author:Barwin, GarySummary:
Set in the years around 1492, Yiddish for Pirates recounts the compelling story of Moishe, a Bar Mitzvah boy who leaves home to join a ship's crew, where he meets Aaron, the polyglot parrot who becomes his near-constant companion.
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