2019 Governor General's Awards

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

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Joan Thomas, Five Wives[2]
Non-fiction   Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother[2]
Poetry   Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild[2]
Drama   Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game[2]
Children's literature   Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky[2]
Children's illustration   Sydney Smith, Small in the City[2]
French to English translation   Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux)[2]

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc[3]
Non-fiction   Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts[3]
Poetry   Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os[3]
Drama   Mishka Lavigne, Havre[3]
Children's literature   Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange[3]
Children's illustration   Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu[3]
English to French translation   Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)[3]

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