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See the full list of shortlisted authors.<\/p>\n
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Fiction:<\/p>\n
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- Daddy Lenin and Other Stories\u00a0<\/em>by Guy Vanderhaghe<\/li>\n
- How You Were Born\u00a0<\/em>by Kate Cayley<\/li>\n
- Outline\u00a0<\/em>by Rachel Cusk<\/li>\n
- The Evening Chorus\u00a0<\/em>by Helen Humphreys<\/li>\n
- The Winter Family\u00a0<\/em>by Clifford Jackman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Non-fiction:<\/p>\n
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- Bee Time\u00a0<\/em>by Mark L. Winston<\/li>\n
- Dispatches<\/em> from the Front\u00a0<\/em>by David Halton<\/li>\n
- Norval Morrisseau\u00a0<\/em>by Armand Garnet Ruffo<\/li>\n
- Party of One\u00a0<\/em>by Michael Harris<\/li>\n
- The Social Life of Ink\u00a0<\/em>by Ted Bishop<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Poetry:<\/p>\n
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- Crossover\u00a0<\/em>by M. Travis Lane<\/li>\n
- For Your Safety Please Hold On\u00a0<\/em>by Kayla Czaga<\/li>\n
- Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent\u00a0<\/em>by Liz Howard<\/li>\n
- My Shoes are Killing Me\u00a0<\/em>by Robyn Sarah<\/li>\n
- Washita\u00a0<\/em>by Patrick Lane<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Drama:<\/p>\n
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- Odd Ducks<\/em> by Bryden MacDonald<\/li>\n
- Mahmoud<\/em> by Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis<\/li>\n
- The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble<\/em> by Beth Graham<\/li>\n
- Winners and Losers<\/em> by Marcus Youssef and James Long<\/li>\n
- carried away on the crest of a wave<\/em> by David Yee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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French-to-English Translation:<\/p>\n
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- Captive<\/em> by <\/em>Claudine Dumont, trans. by David Scott Hamilton<\/li>\n
- The Lake<\/em> by Perrine Leblanc, trans. by Lazer Lederhendler<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Twenty-One Cardinals<\/em> by Jocelyne Saucier, trans. by Rhonda Mullins<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Stolen Sisters:<\/em> The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women<\/em> by Emmanuelle Walter, trans. by Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli<\/li>\n
- Montcalm and Wolfe: Two Men Who Forever Changed the Course of Canadian History<\/em> by Roch Carrier, trans. by Donald Winkler.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Children\u2019s Text:<\/p>\n
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- Are You Seeing Me? b<\/em>y Darren Groth<\/li>\n
- Audrey (cow) <\/em>by Dan Bar-el<\/li>\n
- We Are All Made of Molecules <\/em>by Susin Nielsen<\/li>\n
- The Gospel Truth <\/em>by Caroline Pignat<\/li>\n
- Young Man with Camera <\/em>by Emil Sher<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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Children\u2019s Illustration:<\/p>\n
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- Jack, the King of Ashes <\/em>by <\/em>Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji<\/li>\n
- Sidewalk Flowers <\/em>by <\/em>JonArno Lawson<\/a> and Sydney Smith<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- The Good Little Book <\/em>by <\/em>Kyo Maclear and Marion Arbona<\/li>\n
- A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories <\/em>by <\/em>John Martz<\/li>\n
- Bug in a Vacuum <\/em>by <\/em>M\u00e9lanie Watt<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- Sidewalk Flowers <\/em>by <\/em>JonArno Lawson<\/a> and Sydney Smith<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Audrey (cow) <\/em>by Dan Bar-el<\/li>\n
- The Lake<\/em> by Perrine Leblanc, trans. by Lazer Lederhendler<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n
- Mahmoud<\/em> by Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis<\/li>\n
- For Your Safety Please Hold On\u00a0<\/em>by Kayla Czaga<\/li>\n
- Dispatches<\/em> from the Front\u00a0<\/em>by David Halton<\/li>\n
- How You Were Born\u00a0<\/em>by Kate Cayley<\/li>\n