Nominees for the 1997 Governor General's Literary Awards include three writers with current or past connections to the UVic Writing Department.
Sessional instructor Marilyn Bowering (MA English '73) earned her second Governor General's poetry nomination for Autobiography (A Porcépic Book/Beach Holme Publishers). With Autobiography, the jury's citation said, "the ordinary world is transformed into something rich and arcane."
Also nominated in the poetry category is adjunct professor Don McKay for Apparatus (McClelland & Stewart). A 1991 Governor General's award winner, McKay's nomination was cited for adding "welcome delight to the language."
Matt Cohen, a former visiting writer to UVic, was nominated for his novel Last Seen (Alfred A. Knopf Canada), "a delightful and memorable story of brotherhood and mortality."
Writing professor W.D. Valgardson served on the three-member fiction jury.
Winners from each category will be announced Tuesday, Nov. 18 with prizes presented by Governor General Romeo Leblanc at Rideau Hall.