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Victoria artist Rachel Berman in running for Governor General’s award

Victoria artist Rachel Berman has been nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award, it was announced Wednesday.

Victoria artist Rachel Berman has been nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award, it was announced Wednesday.

Berman received the nod in the children’s literature illustration category for Miss Mousie’s Blind Date, a Tundra Books publication with text by Tim Beiser.

Berman is an illustrator and painter who has exhibited her work across Canada and internationally.

Vancouver writer Sandra Djwa was nominated in the non-fiction category for her biography of the late Victoria writer P.K. Page. Djwa’s book, Journey With No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page, is the first biography of the Page, who died in 2010.

Also nominated in the non-fiction category are: Carolyn Abraham (The Juggler’s Family: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us), Nina Munk (The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty), Allen Smutylo (The Memory of Water) and Priscila Uppal (Projection).

Victoria native Meg Braem, now living in Calgary, was nominated in the drama category for Blood: A Scientific Romance, about twins who are orphaned.

The finalists in the Governor General’s awards’ fiction category are: Kenneth Bonert (The Lion Seeker), Joseph Boyden (The Orenda), Eleanor Catton (The Luminaries), Colin McAdam (A Beautiful Truth) and Shyam Selvadurai (The Hungry Ghosts).

The winners will be announced Nov. 13.

— Adrian Chamberlain