{"id":3952,"date":"2015-10-28T15:01:02","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/?p=3952"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:01:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:01:02","slug":"rhonda-mullins-jonarno-lawson-and-sydney-smith-among-winners-of-2015-ggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/rhonda-mullins-jonarno-lawson-and-sydney-smith-among-winners-of-2015-ggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhonda Mullins, JonArno Lawson, and Sydney Smith Among Winners of 2015 GGs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three authors who appeared at this year&#8217;s The Word On The Street festival have won Governor General&#8217;s Literary Awards: <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/festival\/participants\/rhonda-mullins\/\">Rhonda Mullins<\/a> has won\u00a0in the French to English Translation category with\u00a0<em>Twenty-One Cardinals<\/em> by Jocelyne Saucier; <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/festival\/participants\/jonarno-lawson\/\">JonArno Lawson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/festival\/participants\/sydney-smith\/\">Sydney Smith<\/a> have both won for their beautiful illustrated book\u00a0<em>Sidewalk Flowers<\/em>. Congratulations to all of them, and the rest of the winners which are listed below.<\/p>\n<p>Finalists and winners were selected from a total of 970 submissions. Each winner receives $25,000, presented by the Canada Council for the Arts, and are chosen by a committee of peers.\u00a0On Decemeber 2 at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, the Governor General David Johnston will present the awards to the following winners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fiction: <em>Daddy Lenin and Other Stories<\/em> by Guy Vanderhaeghe<\/li>\n<li>Poetry: <em>My Shoes are Killing Me<\/em> by Robyn Sarah<\/li>\n<li>Drama: <em>carried away on the crest of a wave<\/em> by David Yee<\/li>\n<li>Non-fiction: <em>Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive<\/em> by Mark L. Winston<\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s Literature (Text): <em>The Gospel Truth<\/em> by Caroline Pignat<\/li>\n<li>Children&#8217;s Literature (Illustrated Books): <em>Sidewalk Flowers<\/em> by <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/festival\/participants\/jonarno-lawson\/\">JonArno Lawson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/festival\/participants\/sydney-smith\/\">Sydney Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Translation (from French to English): <em>Twenty-One Cardinals<\/em> by Jocelyne Saucier, translated by <a href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/festival\/participants\/rhonda-mullins\/\">Rhonda Mullins<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three authors who appeared at this year&#8217;s The Word On The Street festival have won Governor General&#8217;s Literary Awards: Rhonda Mullins has won\u00a0in the French to English Translation category with\u00a0Twenty-One Cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier; JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith have both won for their beautiful illustrated book\u00a0Sidewalk Flowers. Congratulations to all of them, and the <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/rhonda-mullins-jonarno-lawson-and-sydney-smith-among-winners-of-2015-ggs\/\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":3954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3952"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3957,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3952\/revisions\/3957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewordonthestreet.ca\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}