Brinkley’s Tower (House of Anansi Press) and Carrie Snyder of Waterloo, Ont., for “The Juliet Stories,” also published by Anansi. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running 8. What We Talk About When We Talk About War (Noah Richler) 7. I could only find 9 total so the 10th book. Other contenders include Toronto’s Linda Spalding for “The Purchase.” Spalding’s book, published by McClelland & Stewart, was also nominated for the Writers’ Trust prize.Īlso up in the fiction category for the Governor-General’s Award are former Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Vincent Lam for his Vietnam saga “The Headmaster’s Wager” fellow Torontonian Robert Hough for “Dr. Books whose titles are a play on Raymond Carvers What We Talk About When We Talk About Love. The awards, which bring with them a $25,000 cash prize from the Canada Council for the Arts, are being handed out in Montreal and acknowledge the best in categories including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama and translation.Īmong the nominees this year are “Siege 13,” a gripping collection of short stories by Waterloo, Ont.-based author Tamas Dobozy, which has already won the $25,000 Rogers Writers’ Trust of Canada Prize for Fiction. MONTREAL – Some of the finest writing in Canada is being honoured Tuesday with the presentation of this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards. What We Talk About When We Talk About War By Noah Richler Goose Lane Editions 370 pp 24.95 I met Noah Richler at a book event about six years ago, shortly after returning to Toronto from an.
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