OTTAWA Michelle Good should be celebrating back-to-back awards wins for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she’s mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation west of Saskatoon, was awarded the $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Award for […]
Posted: Jun 01, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: June 1
The winners of the 2020 Governor General s Literary Awards were announced on June 1, 2021. The books above won in the English-language categories.(CBC, Canada Council for the Arts) comments
Among the winners is Cree writer Michelle Good for her debut novel
Five Little Indians and renowned Canadian American poet Anne Carson for her original work
The Governor General s Literary Awards are among Canada s oldest and most prestigious prizes. The awards, worth $25,000 each, annually recognize the best published books in Canada.
The seven English-language winners are:
Fiction: Intimate and ambitious, Michelle Good s
Five Little Indians is a heart-breaking account of lives shaped and destroyed by the residential school system. Here is powerful testimony, expertly crafted and wisely observed, tragic yet full of redemptive moments. An unflinching, compassionate and moving novel about the struggle to live and love in
Michelle Good says residential school remains cast shadow over GGBooks fiction win
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Author Michelle Good poses in this undated handout photo. Michelle Good should be celebrating back-to-back awards wins for her debut novel about residential school survivors, but instead, she s mourning the children whose deaths in the system are only now being accounted for. Good, a member of Red Pheasant Cree Nation west of Saskatoon, was awarded the $25,000 Governor General s Literary Award for fiction on Tuesday for Five Little Indians, from HarperCollins Publishers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO - Kent Wong Photography
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