Trillium Award Nominees

The 2010 Trillium Book Award nominees were announced today. The Award was created in 1987 to "recognize excellence, support marketing and foster increased public awareness of the quality and diversity of Ontario writers and writing." The Award recognizes authors writing fiction, non-fiction and poetry in both French and English.

English Finalists for the Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium

The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart)

The Boy in the Moon by Ian Brown (Random House Canada)

Animal by Alexandra Leggat (Anvil Press)

The Winter Vault by Anne Michaels (McClelland & Stewart)

Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (McClelland & Stewart)

Heaven is Small by Emily Schultz (House of Anansi Press)

Lemon by Cordelia Strube (Coach House Books)

French Finalists for the Trillium Book Award/Prix Trillium are:

Deux cercles by Ryad Assani-Razaki (VLB éditeur)

Pointe Maligne. L’infiniment oubliée by Nicole Champeau (Les Éditions du Vermillon)

Frères ennemis by Jean Mohsen Fahmy (VLB éditeur)

René Lévesque by Daniel Poliquin (Les Éditions du Boréal)

La Maison : une parabole by Daniel Soha (Éditions du GREF)

English Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry are:

Joy is so Exhausting by Susan Holbrook (Coach House Books)

Pigeon by Karen Solie (House of Anansi Press)

The Hayflick Limit by Matthew Tierney (Coach House Books)

French Finalists for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry are:

Le chant du coucou by Jacqueline Borowick (Inanna Publications & Education Inc.)

Passerelles by Michèle Matteau (Les Éditions L’Interligne)

The winners of the Trillium awards will be announced in Toronto on June 24, so stay tuned.