The shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 8, 2024,[1] and the winners were announced on November 13.[2]
English
| Category
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Winner
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Nominated
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| Fiction
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Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces
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| Non-fiction
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Niigaan Sinclair, Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
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- Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch
- Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
- Danny Ramadan, Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
- Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
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| Poetry
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Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel
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| Drama
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Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
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| Children's literature
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Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing
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- Cherie Dimaline, Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix
- Shari Green, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams
- June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves
- Kristy Jackson, Mortified
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| Children's illustration
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Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
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- Danielle Daniel and Matt James, I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf
- Adam de Souza, The Gulf
- Thao Lam, One Giant Leap
- Sydney Smith, Do You Remember?
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| French to English translation
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Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix)
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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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Steve Poutré, Lait cru
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| Non-fiction
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Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau, Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel
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- Geneviève Boudreau, Une abeille suffit : Carnet d’observation d’un jardin urbain
- Léa Clermont-Dion, Porter plainte
- Jérôme Cotte, Oser l’humour éthique : De Socrate à Virginie Fortin
- Stanley Péan, Noir satin
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| Poetry
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Névé Dumas, poème dégénéré
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- Jonas Fortier, L'Air fou
- Annie Landreville, Les couteaux dans ma gorge ne sont pas des fruits de mer
- Olivier Leroux-Picard, Soleil sans heures
- Emmanuel Simard, Lettres au ciel blanc
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| Drama
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Sarah Berthiaume, Wollstonecraft
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- Olivier Choinière, La dernière cassette : Un portrait d’André Brassard
- Isabelle Hubert, Rose
- Geneviève Labelle and Mélodie Noël Rousseau, Ciseaux
- Johanne Parent, Ornithorynques
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| Children's literature
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Stéfani Meunier, Une bulle en dehors du temps
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- Moira-Uashteskun Bacon, Envole-toi, Mikun
- Dominique Chicoine, Les quatre vérités
- Marc-André Dufour-Labbé, Carreauté Kid
- Jean-Guy Forget and Mélodie Bujold-Henri, Déménager au ciel
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| Children's illustration
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Ovila Fontaine and Charlotte Parent, Le premier arbre de Noël
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- Marie-Andrée Arsenault and Dominique Leroux, Le fil d'Alphée
- Iris Boudreau and Richard Écrapou, Margot veut une moustache
- Marianne Ferrer, Jour d’orage
- Caroline Merola, Histoires fantastiques (et peut-être vraies)
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| English to French translation
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Éric Fontaine, Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage (Philip Lee, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River)
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- Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, Mourir pour la cause : Révolution dans le Québec des années 1960 (Chris Oliveros, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? Revolution in 1960s Quebec)
- Daniel Grenier, Charlie Muskrat (Harold R. Johnson, Charlie Muskrat)
- Madeleine Stratford, Cours vers le danger (Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory)
- Sophie Voillot, La messagère (Thomas Wharton, The Book of Rain)
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References
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