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The winners of the Quebec Writers' Federation 2011 literary award finalists will be announced tonight, November 22nd, at The Lion D'Or in Montreal.
Every year, the federation honours excellence in the categories of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, first book, translation and children’s and young adult literature.
Among the finalists:
Donald Winkler is nominated for the Cole Foundation Prize for his translation of Partita for Glenn Gould by Georges Leroux.
Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art. Countering this common misperception, Partita for Glenn Gould is an eloquent tribute to the artist that illuminates his versatile genius, his thinking, and our reasons for loving his art.
Merrily Weisbord is nominated for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction for The Love Queen of Malabar: Memoir of a Friendship with Kamala Das.
In the 1990s, Merrily Weisbord found Kamala Das, a world renowned writer, so compelling that she flew to South India to meet and record her. The Love Queen of Malabar is the story of their decade-long friendship, an experiment in mutual revelation. Recounting the development of their relationship, Weisbord relates the dramatic events of Das's life, including her transition from celibacy to sexual awakening at age sixty-seven when, provoking the greatest scandal of her notorious life, she converted to Islam for love and renewal.
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