2016 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016,[1] and the winners were announced on October 25.[2]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Non-fiction Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
  • Kamal Al-Solaylee, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)
  • Teva Harrison, In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer
  • Harold R. Johnson, Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)
  • Marc Raboy, Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
Poetry Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late
Drama Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl
Children's literature Martine Leavitt, Calvin
  • Mikaela Everett, The Unquiet
  • E. K. Johnston, A Thousand Nights
  • Trilby Kent, Once, in a Town Called Moth
  • Tim Wynne-Jones, The Emperor of Any Place
Children's illustration Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden
French to English translation Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
Non-fiction Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone
  • André Habib, La main gauche de Jean-Pierre Léaud
  • Michel Morin, Être et ne pas être
  • Yvon Rivard, Exercices d'amitié
  • Louise Warren, La vie flottante
Poetry Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer
Drama Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre
Children's literature François Gilbert, Hare Krishna
  • Camille Bouchard, Nouvelle-Orléans
  • Mario Brassard, Quand hurle la nuit
  • Amélie Dumoulin, Fé M Fé
  • Patrick Isabelle, Camille
Children's illustration Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune
  • Jules Asselin and Ninon Pelletier, Le mystère des billes d'or
  • Simon Boulerice and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Florence et Léon
  • Andrée Poulin and Marie Lafrance, Deux garçons et un secret
  • Yayo, Pikiq
English to French translation Catherine Ego, La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone (James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains)

References

  1. ^ "Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016.
  2. ^ "Awards: Giller finalists Madeleine Thien and Lazer Lederhendler win 2016 GG Awards". Quill & Quire, October 25, 2016.
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