The Hanging of Angélique nominated for Governor General's

Great News! Afua Cooper's The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal is a finalist for the 2006 Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. This is an amazing honour for a Canadian writer to receive, and we're very proud of Afua for making the short list.

Other finalists in the Non-Fiction category include Ross King for The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism,
Susanne Reber, Richmond Hill (ON), and Robert Renaud, Ottawa, for Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild, Michael Strangelove for The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement and Christine Wiesenthal for The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther.

The award is worth $15, 000, and includes the gift of a specially-bound copy of the winning book, as well as $3, 000 to the author's publisher to support promo activities. Non-winning finalists each receive $1, 000 for being recognized on the shortlist. The awards are funded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Winners will be announced on Tuesday, Nov. 21 at 10 a.m. at simultaneous news conferences in Toronto and Montreal. For more info, visit the Governor General's Literary Awards website.