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Leon Rooke and Shakespeare’s Dog

Leon Rooke.
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Shakespeare's Dog, by Leon Rooke, won the 1983 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction.

Scope & context

The award as recorded by the Canada Council for the Arts; no plot summary.

Sources behind this record

1
Past Winners and Finalists — official archive ↗

Canada Council for the Arts

1983; Fiction; EN; Leon Rooke — Shakespeare's Dog

2
Official GGBooks archive data used by the public archive page ↗

Canada Council for the Arts

1983/fiction/en/finalists; winner=true