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Governor General's Literary Awards
The Governor General's Literary Awards honour the best English-language and French-language books in fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children's literature (text), children's literature (illustration) and translation.
Canadian greats such as Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Robertson Davies and Margaret Atwood have Governor General's Literary Awards on their resume.
This year's Governor General's Literary Awards are celebrating their 75th anniversary in 2011. Finalists will be announced on October 11, 2011 and the winners revealed November 15.
The October CBC CanLit Quiz will test your knowledge of past winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards.
?Grand prize: One of two (2) sets of GG Sony e-Reader prize packs, featuring one Sony e-Reader and the seven 2010 English-language winners.
?Runner-up prize: One of three (3) GG prize packs, featuring the seven 2010 English-language winners.
Go to:
http://www.cbc.ca/books/2011/10/canlit-quiz-the-gg-edition.html
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