The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015,[1] and the winners were announced on October 28.
English
| Category
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Winner
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Nominated
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| Fiction
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Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
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| Non-fiction
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Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
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- Ted Bishop, The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word
- David Halton, Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War
- Michael Harris, Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover
- Armand Garnet Ruffo, Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
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| Poetry
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Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me
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| Drama
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David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave
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| Children's literature
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Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth
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- Dan Bar-el, Audrey (cow)
- Darren Groth, Are You Seeing Me?
- Susin Nielsen, We Are All Made of Molecules
- Emil Sher, Young Man with Camera
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| Children's illustration
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JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers
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- Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji, Jack, the King of Ashes
- Kyo Maclear and Marion Arbona, The Good Little Book
- John Martz, A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
- Mélanie Watt, Bug in a Vacuum
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| French to English translation
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Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine)
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- David Scott Hamilton, Captive (Claudine Dumont, Anabiose)
- Lazer Lederhendler, The Lake (Perrine Leblanc, Malabourg)
- Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women (Emmanuelle Walter, Sœurs volées: Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada)
- Donald Winkler, Arvida (Samuel Archibald, Arvida)
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French
| Category
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Winner
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Nominated
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| Fiction
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Nicolas Dickner, Six degrés de liberté
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- Françoise de Luca, Sena
- Marilyne Fortin, La Fabrica
- Catherine Harton, Traité des peaux
- Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon
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| Non-fiction
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Jean-Philippe Warren, Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l'épée (1848-1906)
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- Alain Asselin, Jacques Cayouette and Jacques Mathieu, Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada, tome 1
- Ying Chen, La lenteur des montagnes
- Chantal Savoie, Les femmes de lettres canadiennes-françaises au tournant du XXe siècle
- Patricia Smart, De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan; Se dire, se faire par l'écriture intime
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| Poetry
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Joël Pourbaix, Le mal du pays est un art oublié
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- Martine Audet, Tête première / Dos / Contre dos
- François Baril Pelletier, Les trésors tamisés
- Jean-Philippe Dupuis, Langue maternelle
- René Lapierre, La carte des feux
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| Drama
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Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet
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| Children's literature
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Louis-Philippe Hébert, Marie Réparatrice
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- Camille Bouchard, Les Forces du désordre
- Denis Côté, Dessine-moi un martien
- Roger Des Roches, Boîtamémoire
- Sandra Dussault, Direction Saint-Creux-des-Meuh-Meuh
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| Children's illustration
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André Marois and Patrick Doyon, Le voleur de sandwichs
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- Jacques Goldstyn, L'arbragan
- Mireille Levert, Quand j'écris avec mon cœur
- Mélanie Perreault and Marion Arbona, Rosalie entre chien et chat
- Renée Robitaille and Philippe Béha, Douze oiseaux
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| English to French translation
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Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)
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