2023-10-25 22:53:38
OTTAWA – The Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the Governor General’s Literary Awards this Wednesday. Two Franco-Ontarians, Marie-Hélène Poitras and Brigitte Haentjens stand out in the Novels and Short Stories category.
Brigitte Haenjtens is nominated for her novel Dark is the night, published by Editions le Boréal. It recounts the “shipwreck of a man, of a couple, of an entire generation”, according to the back cover. The narrator is a woman once captivated by this man and by life in the elitist circles of Paris, at the time of Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Michel Foucault.
Ottawa-born author Marie-Hélène Poitras is in the running for the same prize, thanks to her collection of short stories Galumpf. She explores “the way in which humans and animals give and take from each other, and the compromises necessary for life together”, as described on the Alto editions website.
Other categories
In the theater category, we find a text by Martin Bellemare, entitled Charlie, wind behind the navel. The play is aimed at children aged six to nine. Franco-Ottavians will also be able to discover another children’s play by the same author in the coming days. With a target audience of four to eight years old, the show A little party will be presented at the National Arts Center on Saturday and Sunday.
In the Essays category, part-time professor at Saint-Paul University Philippe Bernier Arcand might win the Governor General’s Literary Award for Faux Rebels: The Abuses of Political Incorrectness. The text analyzes certain currents of right-wing thought which appropriate the position of the “rebel” in society, a role which has often been attributed to the left. We talk regarding the “freedom convoy” and the demonization of the woke movement, among other things.
Associate professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Ottawa, Dahlia Namian, is also a finalist in the essays category. Provocative societywhose title refers to an expression by Romain Gary, navigates between refugee camps and megayachts and looks at social inequalities and the exuberances of the ultra-rich.
The full list of finalists can be found on Governor General’s Literary Awards website. The winners will be announced on November 8.
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