08/13/2024

Cherie Dimaline's Funeral Songs for Dying Girls Named Best YA Novel at the 2024 Aurora Awards

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Background depicts the Aurora Borealis. The sky has hues of blue, purple and green. Text reads Congratulations! 2024 Aurora Awards - Best YA Novel. To the right of the text is the cover image of Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline.

The Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (CSFFA) announced the winners of the 2024 Aurora Awards on Sunday, August 11. The prize honours excellence by Canadians in the fields of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. Métis author Cherie Dimaline took home the honour of Best YA Novel for Funeral Songs for Dying Girls.

In Funeral Songs for Dying Girls, Win lives in the Winterson Cemetery, where her dad’s job as caretaker is threatened. Her Métis mother died in childbirth and is buried at Winterson. After confirmed ghost sightings, a ghost tour operator proposes adding Winterson to his itinerary, which might save her father’s job, except that the only ‘ghost’ is Win, roaming the graveyard at night… or is it?

For the complete list of winners, click here.

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