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The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields. The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the Lord Tweedsmuir , [ 4 ] a prolific writer of fiction and non-fiction; he created the Governor General ...
Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island; Non-fiction: Niigaan Sinclair, Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre: Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch; Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial ...
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The shortlisted nominees for the 2021 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, 2021, [1] and the winners were announced on November 17. [2] The 2021 awards returned to their traditional scheduling and presentation in the fall of the year, following the postponement of the 2020 Governor General's Awards to ...
The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts are annual awards for achievements in visual and media arts in Canada. Up to eight awards are presented annually, each with a prize amount of $25,000. [1] Created in 2000 by then Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, the awards are managed by the Canada Council for the Arts. An independent ...
On September 15, 2005, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson created the Governor General's Northern Medal. That medal was incorporated into and replaced by the new Canadian Polar Medal on June 23, 2015, the 145th anniversary of the transfer to Canada of Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory (today the Northwest Territories ). [ 5 ]
The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021, [1] and the winners were announced on June 1. [2] Ordinarily the award shortlists and winners would have been named in fall 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.
In Canada, the 1953 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the seventeenth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour ...