Piolet d'Or took place in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (France) and Courmayeur in the Aosta Valley (Italy) on the 24th and 25 April 2009. The 2009 awardees were: For 2008, the Piolet D'Or was canceled. The co-founders of the award decided to initiate a new process for selecting the nominees and winner, and the process could not be completed on a timely basis for 2008. The 2007 Piolet d'Or was awarded on January 26, 2007 in Grenoble, France. The winners were: Other finalist were: Piolet d'Or The Piolet d'Or (, French for "Golden Ice Axe") is an annual mountaineering award given by the French magazine
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction Council did not present any awards for French-language literature, although four works originally published in French — Ringuet's "Thirty Acres", Germaine Guèvremont's "The Outlander", and Gabrielle Roy's "The Tin Flute" and "Street of Riches" — won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction when a followup English translation was published. The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Since then, the advance shortlist has numbered three to six; from 2002, always five. Governor General's Award for French-language fiction The Governor General's Award for French-language fiction is a Canadian literary award