2021 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2021 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, 2021,^[1] and the winners were announced on November 17.^[2] The 2021 awards returned to their traditional scheduling and presentation in the fall of the year, following the postponement of the 2020 Governor General's Awards to spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

English[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Norma Dunning, Tainna	Rachel Cusk, Second Place G. A. Grisenthwaite, Home Waltz Joe Ollmann, Fictional Father Sheung-King, You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
Non-fiction	Sadiqa de Meijer, alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language	Larry Audlaluk, What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile , Revery: A Year of Bees Ivan Coyote, Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures J. B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping
Poetry	Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance	Roxanna Bennett, The Untranslatable I Stephen Collis, A History of the Theories of Rain Hoa Nguyen, A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure Rebecca Salazar, Sulphurtongue
Drama	Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes	Falen Johnson, Two Indians Jivesh Parasram, Take d Milk, Nah? Paul David Power, Crippled Christine Quintana, Selfie
Children's literature	Philippa Dowding, Firefly	, Peter Lee's Notes from the Field , Unravel Liselle Sambury, Blood Like Magic and Kevin Sylvester, The Fabulous Zed Watson!
Children's illustration	David A. Robertson and Julie Flett, On the Trapline	and , Out Into the Big Wide Lake and , Mii maanda ezhi-gkendmaanh / This Is How I Know and , The Library Bus , The Wind and the Trees
French to English translation	Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (, La vie radieuse)	and , Paul at Home (Michel Rabagliati, Paul à la maison) Peter Feldstein, People, State, and War Under the French Regime in Canada (, Le Peuple, lʼÉtat et la Guerre au Canada sous le Régime français) Katia Grubisic, A Cemetery for Bees (, Le cimetière des abeilles) Susan Ouriou, The Lover, the Lake (, L'amant du lac)

French[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Fanny Britt, Faire les sucres	Sébastien Chabot, Noir métal Paul Serge Forest, Tout est ori Sylvie Laliberté, Jʼai montré toutes mes pattes blanches je nʼen ai plus Olivia Tapiero, Rien du tout
Non-fiction	Serge Bouchard and , Du diesel dans les veines	, LʼEmpire invisible , La Vie au long cours , Occuper les distances Robert Lalonde, La Reconstruction du paradis
Poetry	Tania Langlais, Pendant que Perceval tombait	Daria Colonna, La voleuse Chloé LaDuchesse, Exosquelette , Dʼune caresse patentée , Pompéi
Drama	Mishka Lavigne, Copeaux	, Combattre le why-why Emma Haché, Johnny , Bande de bouffons Émilie Monnet, Okinum
Children's literature	, Les Avenues	, Comme un ouragan , Le Dernier Viking Sandra Sirois, Stella, qu'est-ce que tu fais là? , Tara voulait jouer
Children's illustration	and Gérard DuBois, À qui appartiennent les nuages ?	, Le Tricot François Gravel and , La langue au chat et autres poèmes pas bêtes , Bouées : dérives identitaires, amours imaginaires et détours capillaires , Ma maison-tête
English to French translation	, Poèmes 1938-1984 (Elizabeth Smart, The Collected Poems)	Dominique Fortier, La ballade de Baby suivi de Sagesse de l'absurde (Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals and Wisdom in Nonsense) Daniel Grenier, La Course de Rose (Dawn Dumont, Rose's Run) , Toots fait la Shiva, avenue Minto (Erín Moure, Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots) , Petits marronnages (Kaie Kellough, Dominoes at the Crossroads)

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External links[]

• Governor General's Awards