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Linda Spalding and The Purchase

Linda Spalding.
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The Purchase, by Linda Spalding, won the 2012 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

2012; Fiction; EN; Linda Spalding — The Purchase

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

Canada Council for the Arts

2012/fiction/en/finalists; winner=true