David Garneau had to sit for five months with the news— “I didn’t even tell my own mum!”—that he had won the Governor General’s award for Outstanding Contribution in the arts. “It’s been like carrying this secret, almost like a big stone under my shirt…and then when the announcement came it was like the rock was out of my shirt, but now I’m wearing a disco ball on my head and getting way too much attention,” said Garneau.