Poetry Winner: Immigration

Linda Gaboriau Dept: Three of them -children's author Elise Turcotte and translators Sophie Voillot and Linda Gaboriau -have won the award in the past, while others, like French poetry winner Danielle Fournier, have been nominated before, according to Montreal Gazette. "I think the jury chose me to convince the skeptics that miracles do happen," said first-time writer Kim Thuy, whose semi-autobiographical, first-person novel Ru, about Vietnamese immigrant "boat people," won for French fiction and eight Quebecers -a novelist, a poet, a playwright, a historian, a children's book author and her illustrator, and two translators -are among the 14 winners of the 2010 Governor General's Literary Awards announced yesterday. But for first-timers, the magic of making the short list and then actually winning one of Canada's top book prizes was a rush they found hard to believe. As reported in the news.
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