2019 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,[1] and the winners were announced on October 29.[2]

English[]

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Joan Thomas, Five Wives[2]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother[2]
  • , Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
  • Naomi K. Lewis, Tiny Lights for Travellers
  • , Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
  • Dan Werb, City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
Poetry Blue ribbon Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild[2]
Drama Blue ribbon Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game[2]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky[2]
  • Brian Francis, Break in Case of Emergency
  • , Cold White Sun
  • , Girl of the Southern Sea
  • , The Grey Sisters
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Sydney Smith, Small in the City[2]
French to English translation Blue ribbon Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux)[2]

French[]

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc[3]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon , Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts[3]
  • , La Société des grands fonds
  • , Cartographie des vivants
  • Antonine Maillet, Clin d'œil au Temps qui passe
  • , La prose d'Alain Grandbois. Ou lire et relire Les voyages de Marco Polo
Poetry Blue ribbon Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os[3]
  • , La part habitée du ciel
  • , La cuisine mortuaire
  • , Portages
  • , Fastes
Drama Blue ribbon Mishka Lavigne, Havre[3]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange[3]
  • , Dans le cœur de Florence
  • , Où est ma maison?
  • Pierre Labrie, Mon cœur après la pluie
  • , Au carrefour
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Stéphanie Lapointe and , Jack et le temps perdu[3]
  • and , Le pelleteur de nuages
  • and , Laurent, c'est moi!
  • , Contacts
  • Lucie Papineau and , L'escapade de Paolo
English to French translation Blue ribbon Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)[3]

References[]

  1. ^ "Michael Crummey, Amanda Parris and Armand Garnet Ruffo among 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, October 2, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2019.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Voici les gagnants et gagnantes des prestigieux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général". Ici Radio-Canada, October 29, 2019.

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