Lindy’s Magpie Reads | Shawn and Lindy talk about the 2024 Governor General Literary Award finalists @lindysmagpiereads | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
NOTE: I apologize for the audio drift. I am occasionally flummoxed by technical issues in videography. If you would prefer watching a corrected edition, click here: THE NO AUDIO DRIFT edition of Shawn and Lindy’s conversation about the GG award finalists
youtu.be/IcC2susP_VA
Governor General Literary Awards website: ggbooks.ca
@shawnbreathesbooks Shawn and I talked about the following books from the lists:
GG Fiction finalists:
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of North America, Volume 1 by Kent Monkman and Gisele Gordon, published by McClelland and Stewart
Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel, published by McClelland and Stewart
Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo, published by Dundurn Press
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin, published by Knopf Canada
Her Body Among Animals: Stories by Paola Ferrante, published by Book*hug
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GG Nonfiction finalists:
Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott, published by Vintage Canada
Crooked Teeth by Danny Ramadan, published by Viking
Winipek by Niigaan Sinclair, published by McClelland and Stewart
The Walls Have Eyes by Petra Molnar, published by The New Press
The Age of Insecurity by Astra Taylor, published by House of Anansi
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GG Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books finalists:
Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, published by Groundwood
Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith, published by Groundwood
The Gulf by Adam de Souza, published by Tundra
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GG Translation finalists:
So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle, translated by Aleshia Jensen, published by Drawn and Quarterly
Nights Too Short to Dance by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Katia Grubisic, published by Second Story Press
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Other mentions:
Nishga by Jordan Abel
The Nature Book by Tom Comitta
Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin
The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
Nights in the Underground by Marie-Claire Blais
Songs for Angel by Marie-Claire Blais
NOTE: I apologize for the audio drift. I am occasionally flummoxed by technical issues in videography. If you would prefer watching a corrected edition, click here: THE NO AUDIO DRIFT edition of Shawn and Lindy’s conversation about the GG award finalists
youtu.be/IcC2susP_VA
Governor General Literary Awards website: ggbooks.ca
@shawnbreathesbooks Shawn and I talked about the following books from the lists:
GG Fiction finalists:
The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of North America, Volume 1 by Kent Monkman and Gisele Gordon, published by McClelland and Stewart
Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel, published by McClelland and Stewart
Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo, published by Dundurn Press
Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin, published by Knopf Canada
Her Body Among Animals: Stories by Paola Ferrante, published by Book*hug
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GG Nonfiction finalists:
Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott, published by Vintage Canada
Crooked Teeth by Danny Ramadan, published by Viking
Winipek by Niigaan Sinclair, published by McClelland and Stewart
The Walls Have Eyes by Petra Molnar, published by The New Press
The Age of Insecurity by Astra Taylor, published by House of Anansi
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GG Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books finalists:
Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, published by Groundwood
Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith, published by Groundwood
The Gulf by Adam de Souza, published by Tundra
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GG Translation finalists:
So Long Sad Love by Mirion Malle, translated by Aleshia Jensen, published by Drawn and Quarterly
Nights Too Short to Dance by Marie-Claire Blais, translated by Katia Grubisic, published by Second Story Press
———————————————————-
Other mentions:
Nishga by Jordan Abel
The Nature Book by Tom Comitta
Voodoo Hypothesis by Canisia Lubrin
The Dyzgraphxst by Canisia Lubrin
Annie Bot by Sierra Greer
Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century by Kim Fu
In My Own Moccasins by Helen Knott
Nights in the Underground by Marie-Claire Blais
Songs for Angel by Marie-Claire Blais
