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
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Joan Thomas, Five Wives[2]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother[2]
  • Brian Harvey, Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
  • Naomi K. Lewis, Tiny Lights for Travellers
  • Alan Walker, Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
  • Dan Werb, City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
Poetry Blue ribbon Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild[2]
Drama Blue ribbon Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game[2]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky[2]
  • Brian Francis, Break in Case of Emergency
  • Sue Farrell Holler, Cold White Sun
  • Michelle Kadarusman, Girl of the Southern Sea
  • Jo Treggiari, The Grey Sisters
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Sydney Smith, Small in the City[2]
French to English translation Blue ribbon Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux)[2]

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc[3]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts[3]
  • Daniel Canty, La Société des grands fonds
  • Sarah Brunet Dragon, Cartographie des vivants
  • Antonine Maillet, Clin d'œil au Temps qui passe
  • Patrick Moreau, La prose d'Alain Grandbois. Ou lire et relire Les voyages de Marco Polo
Poetry Blue ribbon Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os[3]
  • Michel Létourneau, La part habitée du ciel
  • Louise Marois, La cuisine mortuaire
  • Louis-Thomas Plamondon, Portages
  • Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Fastes
Drama Blue ribbon Mishka Lavigne, Havre[3]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange[3]
  • Lucie Bergeron, Dans le cœur de Florence
  • Édith Bourget, Où est ma maison?
  • Pierre Labrie, Mon cœur après la pluie
  • Jean-François Sénéchal, Au carrefour
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu[3]
  • Simon Boulerice and Josée Bisaillon, Le pelleteur de nuages
  • Stéphanie Deslauriers and Geneviève Després, Laurent, c'est moi!
  • Mélanie Leclerc, Contacts
  • Lucie Papineau and Lucie Crovatto, L'escapade de Paolo
English to French translation Blue ribbon Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)[3]

References
  1. "Michael Crummey, Amanda Parris and Armand Garnet Ruffo among 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, October 2, 2019.
  2. Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2019.
  3. "Voici les gagnants et gagnantes des prestigieux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général". Ici Radio-Canada, October 29, 2019.
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