2018 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,^[1] and the winners were announced on October 30.^[2]

English[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Sarah Henstra, The Red Word[2]	Paige Cooper, Zolitude Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society Miriam Toews, Women Talking Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
Non-fiction	Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age[2]	Carys Cragg, Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Aida Edemariam, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung, Homes: A Refugee Story
Poetry	Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang[2]	Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk Joshua Mensch, Because: A Lyric Memoir Jason Stefanik, Night Became Years
Drama	Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom[2]	Keith Barker, This Is How We Got Here Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja, Gertrude and Alice Anosh Irani, The Men in White Erin Shields, Paradise Lost
Children's literature	Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster[2]	Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie Janice Lynn Mather, Learning to Breathe and , Winnie's Great War , Ebb & Flow
Children's illustration	Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue[2]	The Fan Brothers, Ocean Meets Sky Shauntay Grant and , Africville Wab Kinew and , Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes , At the Pond
French to English translation	and , Descent Into Night (Edem Awumey, Explication de la nuit)[2]	, Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu) , Explosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination (, Des explosions) Peter McCambridge, Songs for the Cold of Heart (Éric Dupont, La fiancée américaine) Rhonda Mullins, Little Beast (, Barbe)

French[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Karoline Georges, De synthèse[3]	Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse Maxime Raymond Bock, Les noyades secondaires Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish Olivier Sylvestre, Noms fictifs
Non-fiction	Frédérick Lavoie, Avant l’après : voyages à Cuba avec George Orwell[3]	Pierre Anctil, Histoire des juifs du Québec and Jean-Philippe Warren, Le piège de la liberté : les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux , Les chants du mime : en compagnie d’Étienne Decroux Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Mégantic
Poetry	Michaël Trahan, La raison des fleurs[3]	Daria Colonna, Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle , Le revers Catherine Lalonde, La dévoration des fées France Théoret, Cruauté du jeu
Drama	Anne-Marie Olivier, Venir au monde[3]	Christine Beaulieu, J'aime Hydro , La montagne blanche , Invisibles Michel Tremblay, Enfant insignifiant!
Children's literature	, Ferdinand F., 81 ans, chenille[3]	, Maman veut partir , Un dernier songe avant le grand sommeil , 13000 ans et des poussières , Les marées
Children's illustration	Marianne Dubuc, Le chemin de la montagne[3]	and , Une histoire de cancer qui finit bien and , Les mots d'Eunice , Jules et Jim : frères d’armes and , Lili Macaroni : je suis comme je suis!
English to French translation	Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le monde selon Barney (Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version)[3]	, Sweetland (Michael Crummey, Sweetland) Daniel Grenier and , De l’utilité de l’ennui : textes de balle (, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays) , Naissances (Kate Cayley, How You Were Born) Catherine Leroux, Le saint patron des merveilles (Mark Frutkin, Fabrizio's Return)

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