Lewis of Calgary for 'Tiny Lights for Travellers' (University of Alberta Press) and Don Gillmor of Toronto for 'To the River: Losing My Brother' (Random House Canada).Ĭontending for the poetry prize are: Gwen Benaway of Toronto for 'Holy Wild' (Book.hug) Montreal-born and San Francisco-based Julie Bruck for 'How to Avoid Huge Ships' (Brick Books) Catherine Hunter of Winnipeg for 'St. The non-fiction contenders are: Dan Werb of Toronto for 'City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands' (Bloomsbury) Alan Walker of Ancaster, Ont., for 'Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times' (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Brian Harvey of Nanaimo, B.C., for 'Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father' (ECW Press) Naomi K.

The awards, which are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts, revealed the titles nominated in seven English-language categories on Wednesday. Rounding out the short list are Toronto author Cary Fagan for 'The Student' (Freehand Books) and Marianne Micros of Guelph, Ont., for the collection 'Eye' (Guernica Editions). Miller's short-story collection 'Late Breaking' (Biblioasis). Other contenders for the Governor General's $25,000 fiction prize include award-winning Winnipeg novelist Joan Thomas for 'Five Wives' (Harper Avenue) and Toronto-based K.D. The novel, which centres on two orphans living on an isolated cove in Newfoundland, is also shortlisted for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize and Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.

OTTAWA - Newfoundland writer Michael Crummey has scored his third nomination for a major Canadian book award this season.Ĭrummey is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Awards for fiction for 'The Innocents,' published by Doubleday Canada.

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