Reference Bibliographies & Indexes
Canada's Best | La grande littérature du Canada
An Anthology | Une anthologie
- Publisher
- Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2025
- Category
- Bibliographies & Indexes, Books & Reading, Arts & Humanities
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780776627830
- Publish Date
- Apr 2025
- List Price
- $79.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780776627854
- Publish Date
- Feb 2022
- List Price
- $29.99
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Description
Since their founding in 1936, Canada’s GG Literary Awards have served as the country’s premier literary prize.
Together with Canada’s Storytellers and The Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada: A Bibliography, this volume completes a three-volume collection that offers readers an overview of a much-loved literary prize.
Indeed, the Governor General’s Literary Awards have served as Canada’s premier literary prize for over three-quarters of a century. They have been awarded annually in a variety of evolving categories. Fifteen Governors General have served as their patron.
Between 1936 and 2018, the awards have recognized 719 books in English and French and have been presented to 580 authors, illustrators, and translators.
This fully bilingual, ground-breaking anthology includes excerpts from all 719 books. It gives readers a richly illustrated summary of the stunning variety of titles that have been recognized. This ground-breaking bilingual anthology includes excerpts of all 719 books. It provides readers with a richly illustrated summary of the stunning variety of titles that have been recognized over the years.
This anthology belongs on the shelves of all Canadian libraries.
About the authors
Andrew David Irvine est professeur de philosophie et de mathématiques à l’Université de Colombie-Britannique (UBC), dont il a été vice-président du bureau des gouverneurs. Il a également été directeur du secteur Économie, Philosophie et Science politique à UBC Okanagan, ainsi que président de la British Columbia Civil Liberties Association.
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Edmond Rivère est chargé de cours en français à UBC Okanagan.
Stephanie Tolman est chargée de cours en français à UBC Okanagan.
Excerpt: Canada's Best | La grande littérature du Canada: An Anthology | Une anthologie (edited by Andrew David Irvine; contributions by Edmond Rivère & Stephanie Tolman)
These are the words we have chosen to remember. They are the stories that have touched our imagination. They are the rhymes we teach our children as we drive to the beach in the summer. They are the artwork we share with our grandchildren as we sit by a warm winter fire. In peacetime and in war, they have taught us our history. In good times and bad, they have given us glimpses into our future. Over the decades, they have helped us discover who we are and where we have come from. They have introduced us to our neighbours and helped us bridge our two solitudes. Generation after generation, they have given voice to a nation’s dreams and aspirations, and they have done it with grace and wit and learning and style.
These are the books that have won the Governor General’s Literary Awards of Canada.
