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2019 Governor General's Awards

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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]
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]
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]
Poetry Blue ribbon Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os[3]
Drama Blue ribbon Mishka Lavigne, Havre[3]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange[3]
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu[3]
English to French translation Blue ribbon Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)[3]

References