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And the winner is…

October 26, 2016 By Ying 2 Comments

Warmest congratulations to Martine Leavitt on winning the 2016 Governor General’s Award for Young People’s Literature (Text category) for her astounding novel, Calvin!

Martine Leavitt, Calvin

Here’s our jury citation:

In Martine Leavitt’s Calvin, a boy newly diagnosed with schizophrenia makes a pilgrimage across a frozen Lake Erie. Told in spare, beautiful prose, this transcendent exploration of reality and truth is funny, frightening and affirming. Calvin is an astonishing achievement.

I love and admire this novel so much. I hope you’ll read it, too.

Filed Under: Things I Do, Things I Read Tagged With: GGs, Governor General's Award, Martine Leavitt, Things I Do, Things I Read

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  1. Glauber says

    October 26, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Yes! I loved it.

  2. Ying says

    October 31, 2016 at 10:48 am

    You have good taste, Glauber!

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