Norma Dunning wins 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for English-language fiction
CBC News | November 17, 2021
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The 2021 Governor General's Literary Award winners have been announced, with Edmonton writer Norma Dunning taking home the English-language fiction prize for her short story collection Tainna: The Unseen Ones.
The Governor General's Literary Awards are among Canada's oldest and most prestigious prizes for literature. There are seven categories, awarded in both French and English, with $25,000 going to each winning book.
The seven categories are: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, translation, young people's literature — text and young people's literature — illustrated books.
Dunning is an Inuk writer, scholar and assistant lecturer in the University of Alberta's faculty of education.
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