Congratulations and Announcements
in cra-briefings32 · December 15, 2005
The Creators’ Copyright Coalition (CCC) has launched its website www.creatorscopyright.ca, supported by artists’, writers’, and musicians’ organizations committed to both access and copyright.
Congratulations to David Bergen named the 2005 winner of the Giller Prize for his novel “The Time in Between”.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2005 Governor General’s Awards:
Fiction
- David Gilmour for “A Perfect Night to Go to China”
- Aki Shumazaki for “Hotaru”
Non-Fiction
- John Vaillant for “The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth Madness and Greed”
- Michel Bock for “Quand la nation débordait les frontières’’
Poetry
- Anne Compton “Processional”
- Jean-Marc Desgent for “Vingtièmes siècles”
Drama
- John Mighton “Half Life”
- Genevive Billette for “Le pays des genoux”
Translation
- Fred A. Reid “Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Native Tradition” by Thierry Hentsch
- Rachel Martinez for “Glen Gould: Une Vie” by Kevin Bazzana
Children’s Lit
- Pamela Porter “The Crazy Man”
- Camille Bouchard for “Le ricanement des hyènes”
Children’s Illustration
- Rob Gonsalves “Imagine a Day”; text by Sarah L. Thomson
- Isabelle Arsenault for “Le coeur de Monsieur Gauguin”; text by Marie-Danielle Croteau
March 31, 2006 is the deadline for nominations for world book capital for 2008. Montreal has been a great ambassador for books in 2005. If you have a suggestion for 2008 find out more from m.rosi@unesco.org
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