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2011 Shortlists

International Shortlist

Seamus Heaney, USA

Human Chain

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA
Khaled Mattawa, USA

Adonis: Selected Poems

translated from the Arabic written by
Adonis, Syria
Yale University Press, USA
Philip Mosley, USA

The Book of the Snow

translated from the French written by
François Jacqmin, Belgium
Arc Publications, UK
Gjertrud Schnackenberg, USA

Heavenly Questions International Winner

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, USA

Canadian Shortlist

Dionne Brand, Canada

Ossuaries Canadian Winner

McClelland & Stewart, Canada
Suzanne Buffam, Canada

The Irrationalist

House of Anansi, Canada
John Steffler, Canada

Lookout

McClelland & Stewart, Canada