Please join me in congratulating Bill Gaston, Sean Dixon, Thomas King, Julia Morstad (illustrator for Kyo Maclear’s Julia, Child) and Alexandra Shimo, and and their publishers, on their GG nominations!
For the full list, please see the link below:
http://canadacouncil.ca/council/news-room/news/2014/gg-finalists
Fiction
Bill Gaston– Juliet Was a Surprise (Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Canada)
Thomas King – The Back of the Turtle (HarperCollins Publishers)
Drama
Sean Dixon – A God in Need of Help (Coach House Books)
Non-fiction
Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo – Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History (Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada)
Children’s Literature (Illustration)
Julie Morstad – Julia, Child, text by Kyo Maclear (Tundra Books)