2016 Governor General's Awards

Summary

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 edit

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
  • Jo Ellen Bogart and Sydney Smith, The White Cat and the Monk
  • Lucy Ruth Cummins, A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals
  • Mireille Messier and Pierre Pratt, The Branch
  • Esmé Shapiro, Ooko
French to English translation   Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)

French edit

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 edit

  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.

External links edit

  • Governor General's Awards