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11/1/04

SLU PROFESSOR'S BOOK NOMINATED FOR PRESTIGIOUS AWARD

CANTON – A St. Lawrence University professor is among the 68 finalists for the 
2004 Governor General's Literary Awards, among the most prestigious recognitions 
for literature in Canada.
	Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures Roseline Tremblay 
is a finalist in the non-fiction category, for her book L’Écrivain imaginaire: 
essai sur le roman québécois, 1960-1995. Winners will be announced November 16.
      The Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the awards, in 
English and in French, in the categories of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, 
children's literature (text and illustration) and translation. A total of 68 books 
have been nominated for this year’s awards; 36 of the finalists are nominated for 
the first time. 
	The Canada Council for the Arts funds, administers and promotes the 
Governor General's Literary Awards, worth $15,000 each. Non-winning finalists will 
each receive $1,000 in recognition of their selection as finalists.
      "The writers whom we will honor are an expression of our culture," said 
Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada. "They encourage our ability to 
live with compassion and an understanding for what other people's lives are really 
like. Writers help us to live this examined life by creating characters, or by 
re-creating for us those who have actually lived, so that we may see inside their 
lives, their dreams and their decisions. Writers renew and animate our language as 
they transform its everyday words into enduring literature."
	"This year's finalists include both established authors and the young, 
vibrant new voices who will be the literary superstars of the future," said Canada 
Council Director John Hobday. "Their work exemplifies the reasons why Canadian 
literature is increasingly known, read and respected here at home and around the 
world."
      The winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards are chosen by independent 
juries in each category (seven English and seven French), appointed by the Canada 
Council. The juries, which meet separately, consider all eligible books published 
between September 1, 2003, and September 30, 2004, for English-language books and 
between July 1, 2003, and June 30, 2004, for French-language books. This year, a 
total of 1,465 titles, 830 in the English-language categories and 635 in the 
French-language categories, were submitted.
	The juries stated of Tremblay's book, "This essay in a fluid, clear style 
highlights the essential position occupied by author-characters in the literature 
of Quebec. In studying an impressive number of books, Tremblay shows with accuracy 
and relevance how writers in fiction lead us to reflect on the making of fiction 
and on the society that the imaginary writer gives us to read."
	Published in 2004 by Hurtubise in Montreal, the book is a study of the 
contemporary Québécois novel. It is also a finalist for the Association Des 
Epidémiologistes de Langue Française (ADELF) France-Quebec Award, founded in 
1965 with the Delegation from Quebec in Paris, to honor the memory of Quebec 
writer Jean Hamelin. The award winner will be announced in February of 2005.

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