The shortlist for the 2013 Governor General’s Literary Awards, announced Wednesday, features books written by York University alumni and faculty in both the fiction and non-fiction categories.

In the non-fiction category, York English Professor Priscila Uppal’s Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother is
vying for the $25,000 prize. This is the second major award her memoir is in the running for. It was shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction last month (see the Sept. 18 YFile story). [read more...]