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Awards

Here are the most recent winners of the top awards in literature.

The Giller Prize
The Governnor General's Award
The Nobel Prize for Literature
The Pulitzer Prize for Literature

The Giller Prize

The Giller prize awards $25,000 annually to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English. The Giller prize is named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller and was founded in 1994 by her husband, Toronto businessman Jack Rabinovitch.

For more information, visit the Giller Prize website
http://www.thegillerprize.ca.

2009 Winner

Linden MacIntyre - The Bishop's Man

Also nominated:

Kim Echlin - The Disappeared

Annabel Lyon - The Golden Mean

Colin McAdam - Fall

Anne Michaels - The Winter Vault

2008 Winner

Joseph Boyden - Through Black Spruce

Also nominated:

Anthony De Sa - Barnacle Love

Marina Endicott - Good to a Fault

Rawi Hage - Cockroach

Mary Swan - The Boys in the Trees

2007 Winner

Elizabeth Hay - Late Nights on Air

Also nominated:

Michael Ondaatje for Divisadero
Daniel Poliquin for A Secret Between Us
M.G. Vassanji for The Assassin’s Song
Alissa York for Effigy

2006 Winner

Vincent Lam - Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures

Also nominated:

Rawi Hage for De Niro’s Game
Pascale Quiviger for The Perfect Circle
Gaétan Soucy for The Immaculate Conception
Carol Windley for Home Schooling

2005 Winner

David Bergen for The Time In Between

Also nominated:
Joan Barfoot for Luck
Camilla Gibb for Sweetness In The Belly
Lisa Moore for Alligator
Edeet Ravel for A Wall of Light

2004 Winner

Munro, Alice - Runaway

Also nominated:
Baldwin, Shauna Singh - The Tiger Claw
Choy, Wayson - All That Matters
Holdstock, Pauline - Beyond Measure
Quarrington, Paul - Galveston
Toews, Miriam - A Complicated Kindness

2003 Winner

Vassanji, M.G. - The In-Between World of Vikram Lall

Also nominated:
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
Bemrose, John - The Island Walkers
Gould, John - Kilter: 55 Fictions
MacDonald, Anne-Marie - The Way the Crow Flies

The Governor General's Literary Awards

The Governor General's Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Literary Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English).

For more information, visit the Governor General's Literary Awards site

http://www.canadacouncil.ca/prizes/ggla/default.asp

Listed below are the Fiction winners and nominees.

2009 Winner

Kate Pullinger - The Mistress of Nothing

Also nominated:

Michael Crummey - Galore

Annabel Lyon - The Golden Mean

Alice Munro - Too Much Happiness

Deborah Willis - Vanishing and Other Stories

2008 Winner

Nino Ricci - The Origin of Species

Also nominated:

Rivka Galchen - Atmospheric Disturbances

Rawi Hage - Cockroach

David Adams Richards - The Lost Highway

Fred Stenson - The Great Karoo

2007 Winner

Michael Ondaatje - Divisadero

Also nominated:

David Chariandy - Soucouyant

Barbara Gowdy - Helpless

Heather O'Neill - Lullabies for Little Criminals

M.G. Vassanji - The Assassin's Song

2006 Winner

Peter Behrens - The Law of Dreams

Also nominated:

Trevor Cole - The Fearsome Particles

Bill Gaston - Gargoyles

Paul Glennon - The Dodecahedron, or A Frame for Frames

Rais Hage - De Niro's Game

2005 Winner

David Gilmour - A Perfect Night to Go to China

Also nominated:

Joseph Boyden - Three Day Road

Gloda Fried - Nellcott is My Darling

Charlotte Gill - Ladykiller

Kathy Page - Alphabet

2004 Winner

Toews, Miriam - A Complicated Kindness

Also nominated:
Bezmozgis, David - Natasha and Other Stories
Cole, Trevor - Norman Bray, In the Performance of his Life
McAdam, Colin - Some Great Thing
Munro, Alice - Runaway

2003 Winner

Glover, Douglas - Elle

Also nominated:
Atwood, Margaret - Oryx and Crake
Hay, Elizabeth - Garbo Laughs
McNeil, Jean - Private View
Ravel, Edeet - Ten Thousand Lovers

The Nobel Prize in Literature

The Nobel Prize in Literature has recognized the whole spectrum of literary works including poetry, novels, short stories, plays, essays and speeches. Starting off with the first prize in 1901 to the poet and philosopher Sully Prudhomme, author of Stances et Poèmes (1865), the Prize has distinguished the works of authors from different languages and cultural backgrounds. It has been awarded to unknown masters as well as authors acclaimed worldwide.

For more information, visit the Nobel Prize website

http://www.nobelprize.org

2009 - Herta Müller

2008 - Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

2007 - Doris Lessing
2006 - Orhan Pamuk
2005 - Harold Pinter
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek
2003 - J.M. Coetzee

The Pulitzer Prize - Fiction

The Pulitzer Prize, established through a bequest in Joseph Pulitzer’s will in 1904, is designed as an incentive to encourage excellence in writing.

Originally, Pulitzer specified four awards, however the number of awards has increased over the years and currently 21 awards are presented in categories such as fiction, poetry, music, and photography, in addition to the original journalistic awards. The book award category for fiction recognizes distinguished fiction by an American author, preferably dealing with American life.

For more information, visit the Pulitzer Prize website

http://www.pulitzer.org