Playwrights Christine Quintana and Jivesh Parasram amid Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists
Other nods include Ivan Coyote’s Care Of, J.B. MacKinnon’s The Day the World Stops Shopping, and Sheung-King’s You Are Eating An Orange. You Are Naked
VANCOUVER PLAYWRIGHTS have made a strong showing in today’s Governor-General’s Literary Awards finalists, announced by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Christine Quintana’s Selfie, a sharp look at sexual consent and teen self-promotion in the era of Instagram, is up for the Drama prize, as is Rumble Theatre artistic director Jivesh Parasram’s Take D Milk, Nah?, a fresh and hilarious take on identity that won the 2020 Jessie Richardson Critics’ Choice Innovation Award. Elsewhere in the category, Nova Scotia’s Hannah Moscovitch, whose work is frequently performed here, is up for her Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes. (All are published by Playwrights Canada Press.)
In the Non-Fiction category, Vancouver’s J.B. MacKinnon is up for The Day the World Stops Shopping (Random House Canada / Penguin Random House Canada), an imaginative look what would happen to our world if we stopped consuming so much; and longtime Vancouver writer-performer Ivan Coyote, now of London, Ontario, has received a nod for the pandemic-inspired letter-response book Care Of: Letters, Connections, and Cures (McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada).
In Poetry, Surrey’s Tolu Oloruntoba is up for The Junta of Happenstance (Anstruther Books / Palimpsest Press) and Delta’s Stephen Collis gets a nod for A History of the Theories of Rain ( Talonbooks). Meanwhile, Vancouver-born, Hong Kong-raised, Toronto-based author Sheung King has a Fiction nomination for You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked (Book*hug Press).
There is much more, in Young People’s Literature, Translations, and other categories—70 books in all—at the G-G site here.
The 14 winners for 2021 will be announced on the same site on November 17.
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