Behrens, O'Neill nominated for first novel award
Last Updated: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 | 3:05 PM ET
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Peter Behrens's Governor General's award-winning book The Law of Dreams and Heather O'Neill's Lullabies for Little Criminals were among six finalists nominated Wednesday for Canada's First Novel Award.
The Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, in its 30th year, recognizes the the best first novel in English by a citizen or resident of Canada. Previous winners include Michael Ondaatje (1976), Joy Kogawa (1981), Rohinton Mistry (1991) and Anne Michaels (1996).
Behrens, a Maine-based screenwriter, imagined the journey of his grandfather from the Irish potato famine to Montreal in The Law of Dreams.
Lullabies for Little Criminals, the book chosen by CBC's Canada Reads as a novel all Canadians should read this year, is about a teen with a dysfunctional family surviving on the streets of Montreal.
The other finalists are:
- The Uninvited Guest, by Toronto writer John Degen — a mix of hockey, the Stanley Cup and Canadian and Romanian story-telling.
- Empress of Asia, by Adam Lewis Schroeder of Penticton, B.C. — a man recalls his romance with his late wife in war-time Singapore.
- Certainty by Madeleine Thien of Quebec City — the story of a family re-examining its past after the death of their daughter.
- Stolen by Annette Lapointe, who lives in Saskatoon and Winnipeg — a young thief and drug dealer's life in rural Saskatchewan.
The winner of the $7,500 award is to be announced in October.
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