The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English- and French-language books in the categories of Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature, and Translation.
Now in its eighth year, this event celebrates the authors shortlisted for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for English Fiction. Confirmed Participants: Tamas Dobozy, Robert Hough, Vincent Lam, Carrie Snyder, Linda Spalding.
Phil Hall, the 2011 winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry, will do a special reading.
The CBC'c Shelagh Rogers hosts.
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Tamas Dobozy received his PhD in English from the University of British Columbia. His work has been published in journals throughout North America, and in 1995 he won the annual subTerrain short fiction contest. His first collection of short fiction, When X Equals Marylou, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Award. Dobozy teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario. Dobozy’s Siege 13 is a collection of 13 linked stories tracing the ripple effect of the Second World War on characters directly involved, and on their friends, associates, sons, daughters, grandchildren and adoptive countries.
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Phil Hall’s first book, Eighteen Poems, was published in 1973. His works include Old Enemy Juice and The Bad Sequence. He has taught writing at several universities and colleges and been a poet-in-residence at Sage Hill Writing Experience, The Pierre Berton House and elsewhere. Killdeer, winner of the 2011 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry and the Trillium Book Award, is Hall’s most recent publication and was partially inspired by the Eastern Ontario landscape.
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Critically acclaimed author Robert Hough has written four novels including The Final Confession of Mabel Stark which was nominated for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and for the Trillium Book Award, The Stowaway, and The Culprits. Hough shares his latest novel Dr. Brinkley’s Tower, a sensational, passionate story of jealousy and greed set against the backdrop of Mexico in the 1930s.
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Physician and author Vincent Lam is from the expatriate Chinese community of Vietnam, and was born in Canada. He is a lecturer with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Toronto and has worked in international air evacuation and expedition medicine on Arctic and Antarctic ships. Lam's first book, Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize and has recently been adapted for television and broadcast on HBO Canada. Lam’s The Headmaster's Wager tells the story of Percival, a gambling, womanizing, corrupt headmaster at a prestigious English school in Saigon.
Award-winning broadcast journalist Shelagh Rogers has interviewed authors throughout her career, including on the CBC Radio programmes This Morning and Sounds Like Canada, and Imprint on TVO. She is now the host and producer of The Next Chapter on CBC Radio, exclusively devoted to Canadian writing and writers. Rogers speaks publicly about mental illness and has been honoured for her work in reconciliation between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. She was recently appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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Carrie Snyder was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and grew up in Ohio, Nicaragua, and Ayr, Ontario. Her first book, Hair Hat, was nominated for the Danuta Gleed Award for Short Fiction. Snyder presents The Juliet Stories, which follows one girl and her family in Nicaragua during the height of the post-revolutionary war and the family’s return back to Canada.
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Born and raised in Kansas, Linda Spalding immigrated to Canada from Hawaii in 1982. Spalding is the author of three previous novels and two acclaimed works of non-fiction: The Follow, which was shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award and the Pearson Writers’ Trust Non-Fiction Prize; and Who Named the Knife, the true story of the murder trial of Maryann Acker. She lives in Toronto, where she is an editor at Brick. She is also a past recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize. In Spalding’s new novel, The Purchase, a young Quaker father and widower leaves his home in Pennsylvania to establish a new life.
