{"id":92351,"date":"2025-10-23T02:55:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/92351\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T02:55:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T02:55:12","slug":"governor-generals-literary-award-finalists-announced-including-titles-by-vermette-parker-reva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/92351\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor General\u2019s Literary Award finalists announced, including titles by vermette, Parker, Reva"},"content":{"rendered":"

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katherena vermette\u2019s novel real ones is one of five books up for the English-language Governor General\u2019s Literary Award.vanda4\/Supplied<\/p>\n

Books by katherena vermette, Fawn Parker and Maria Reva are among the fiction finalists for the Governor General\u2019s Literary Awards this year.<\/p>\n

Vermette\u2019s novel real ones<\/a>, about two Michif sisters whose mother is accused of falsely claiming Indigenous heritage, is one of five books up for the English-language fiction prize, alongside Parker\u2019s autofictional depiction of grief Hi, It\u2019s Me<\/a> and Reva\u2019s debut novel Endling, about a scientist who studies rare snails.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the finalists in that category are Benjamin Hertwig\u2019s Juiceboxers, about four young soldiers serving in Afghanistan, and Small Ceremonies by Kyle Edwards, which follows a hockey team of Ojibwe high schoolers.<\/p>\n

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Author Benjamin HertwigSupplied<\/p>\n

Globe readers share their favourite Canadian books<\/a><\/p>\n

The Canada Council for the Arts named 70 finalists across seven categories in both English and French on Tuesday. The 14 winners, who each receive $25,000, will be announced Nov. 6.<\/p>\n

The non-fiction finalists include Claire Cameron\u2019s How to Survive a Bear Attack, Teresa Wong\u2019s All Our Ordinary Stories: A Multigenerational Family Odyssey, and The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse: A Memoir by Vinh Nguyen.<\/p>\n

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Author Fawn ParkerPenguin Randomhouse<\/p>\n

Also in contention are What to Feel, How to Feel by Shane Neilson and Searching for Serafim: The Life and Legacy of Serafim \u2019Joe\u2019 Fortes by Ruby Smith Diaz.<\/p>\n

The Governor General\u2019s Literary Awards will also dole out honours for drama, writing and illustration in children\u2019s literature, as well as French-to-English translation. There are separate French-language categories for francophone writing.<\/p>\n

Benjamin Hertwig: I served in Afghanistan. Here\u2019s why I\u2019ve stopped going to ceremonies on Remembrance Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: katherena vermette\u2019s novel real ones is one of five books up for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[246,229,247,412,220,218,248,245,217,236,237,232,219,216,184,243,146,242,235,227,259,221,222,234,85,46,230,231,224,249,225,254,255,257,252,256,250,253,223,240,241,238,239,251,228,125,244,233,226,126,258],"class_list":["post-92351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-books","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}