October 14, 2009. The 2009 nominees for the Governor General's Awards were announced this morning at Ben McNally Books in Toronto. The awards are administered by the Canada Council for the Arts and include books from several categories, both french and english, such as fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama.

The Literary Press Group would like to congratulate all its members who had authors nominated at this mornings announcements:

Drama

Innocence Lost: A Play About Steven Trescott by Beverley Cooper. Scirocco Drama / J Gordon Shillingford Publishing.

East of Berlin by Hannah Moscovitch. Playwrights Canada Press.

Talk by Michael Nathanson. Playwrights Canada Press.

Poetry

Expressway by Sina Queyras. Coach House Books.

Be Calm, Honey by David W McFadden. Mansfield Press.

Little Hunger by Phillip Kevin Paul. Nightwood Editions.

This Way Out by Carmine Starnino. Gaspereau Press.

Translation (French to English)

One by Jo-Anne Elder, translation of Seul on est by Serge Patrice Thibodeau. Goose Lane Editions.

The winners will be announced on November 17th in Montreal, with an awards presentation to follow on November 26th at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. For a full list of the nominees, please visit the Canada Council for the Arts web site.