Tamas Dobozy and Linda Spalding received their second nominations of the fall awards season

The Governor General’s Literary Awards announced its 2012 finalists this morning, adding several first-time nominees to the betting pool.

In the fiction category, Tamas Dobozy and Linda Spalding, both shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, received their second nominations of the fall awards season. The shortlist is rounded out by Scotiabank Giller Prize“winner Vincent Lam’s debut novel, Robert Hough’s fourth book, and short-story collections by Tamas Dobozy and Carrie Snyder.

The winners, each of whom receives $25,000, will be announced Nov. 13 at a ceremony in Ottawa.

The complete English-language shortlists, which include drama, non-fiction, children’s books, and translation, are as follows:

Fiction

• Tamas Dobozy, Siege 13 (Thomas Allen Publishers)
• Robert Hough, Dr. Brinkley’s Tower (House of Anansi Press)
• Vincent Lam, The Headmaster’s Wager (Doubleday Canada)
• Carrie Snyder, The Juliet Stories (Anansi)
• Linda Spalding, The Purchase (McClelland & Stewart)

Poetry

• Julie Bruck, Monkey Ranch (Brick Books)
• David McGimpsey, Li’l Bastard (Coach House Books)
• A.F. Moritz, The New Measures (Anansi)
• Lisa Pasold, Any Bright Horse (Frontenac House)
• James Pollock, Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press)

Drama

• Catherine Banks, It is Solved by Walking (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Trina Davies, The Romeo Initiative (Playwrights Canada)
• Karen Hines, Drama: Pilot Episode (Coach House)
• Cathy Ostlere and Dennis Garnhum, Lost: A Memoir (Scirocco Drama)
• Anusree Roy, Brothel #9 (Playwrights Canada)

Non-fiction

• Nahlah Ayed, A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter’s Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring (Viking Canada)
• Carol Bishop-Gwyn, The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca (Cormorant Books)
• Wade Davis, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
• Ross King, Leonardo and the Last Supper (Bond Street Books)
• Noah Richler, What We Talk About When We Talk About War (Goose Lane Editions)

Children’s Literature: Text

• Rachel Hartman, Seraphina (Doubleday Canada)
• Deborah Kerbel, Under the Moon (Dancing Cat Books)
• Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (Tundra Books)
• Judd Palmer, The Umbrella (Bayeux Arts)
• Allan Stratton, The Grave Robber’s Apprentice (HarperCollins Canada)

Children’s Literature: Illustration

• Isabelle Arsenault, Virginia Wolf; text by Kyo Maclear (Kids Can Press)
• Renné Benoit, Big City Bees; text by Maggie de Vries (Greystone Books)
• Jon Klassen, House Held up by Trees; text by Ted Kooser (Candlewick Press/Random House)
• David Parkins, In the Bag! Margaret Knight Wraps it Up; text by Monica Kulling (Tundra)
• Barbara Reid, Picture a Tree (Scholastic Canada)

Translation: French to English

• Sheila Fischman, Ru (Random House Canada); English translation of Ru by Kim Thúy (Éditions Libre Expression)
• Michael Gilson, Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada’s Sicilian Clan (Random House Canada); English translation of Mafia inc. Grandeur et misère du clan sicilien au Quebec by André Cédilot and André Noël (Éditions de l’Homme)
• John Murrell, The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs & Thinking of Yu (Playwrights Canada Press); English translation of La petite pièce en haut de l’escalier and Je pense à Yu, suivi de Entrefilet by Carole Fréchette (Leméac Éditeurs/Actes Sud)
• Nigel Spencer, Mai at the Predators’ Ball (Anansi); English translation of Mai au bal des prédateurs by Marie-Claire Blais (Les Éditions du Boréal)
• Shelley Tepperman, The List (Playwrights Canada); English translation of La liste by Jennifer Tremblay (Les Éditions de la Bagnole)