2017 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2017,[1] and the winners were announced on November 1.[2]




Contents





  • 1 English


  • 2 French


  • 3 References


  • 4 External links




English


























Category
Winner
Nominated

Fiction

Blue ribbonJoel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night[2]


  • Michael Kaan, The Water Beetles


  • Alison MacLeod, All the Beloved Ghosts


  • Jocelyn Parr, Uncertain Weights and Measures


  • Kathleen Winter, Lost in September


Non-fiction

Blue ribbonGraeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State[2]


  • Sharon Butala, Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope


  • Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts


  • Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational


  • Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others


Poetry

Blue ribbonRichard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood[2]


  • Lorna Crozier, What the Soul Doesn't Want


  • Nora Gould, Selah


  • Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War


  • Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between


Drama

Blue ribbonHiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm[2]


  • Robert Chafe, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams


  • Anna Chatterton, Within the Glass


  • Michael Healey, 1979


  • Kate Hennig, The Virgin Trial


Children's literature

Blue ribbonCherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves[2]


  • Alison Hughes, Hit the Ground Running


  • Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky


  • Allan Stratton, The Way Back Home


  • Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined


Children's illustration

Blue ribbonDavid Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone[2]


  • Marie-Louise Gay, Short Stories for Little Monsters


  • Paul Harbridge and Matt James, When the Moon Comes


  • Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith, Town Is By the Sea


  • Jan Thornhill, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk


French to English translation

Blue ribbonOana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme)[2]


  • Katia Grubisic, Brothers (David Clerson, Frères)


  • Howard Scott, Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries (Gérard Bouchard, Raison et déraison du mythe)


  • Pablo Strauss, The Longest Year (Daniel Grenier, L'année la plus longue)


  • W. Donald Wilson, In Search of New Babylon (Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon)


French


























Category
Winner
Nominated

Fiction

Blue ribbonChristian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige[3]


  • Virginie Blanchette-Doucet, 117 Nord


  • Mylène Bouchard, L'Imparfaite Amitié


  • Michael Delisle, Le Palais de la fatigue


  • Stéphane Larue, Le Plongeur


Non-fiction

Blue ribbonSerge Bouchard, Les Yeux tristes de mon camion[3]


  • Benoît Côté, Propositions de clarté


  • Daniel Grenier, La solitude de l'écrivain de fond


  • Nicolas Lévesque, Je sais trop bien ne pas exister


  • Ouanessa Younsi, Soigner, aimer


Poetry

Blue ribbonLouise Dupré, La Main hantée[3]


  • Jean-Marc Desgent, Strange Fruits


  • Annie Lafleur, Bec-de-lièvre


  • Judy Quinn, Pas de tombeau pour les lieux


  • Serge Patrice Thibodeau, L'Isle Haute en marge de Grand-Pré


Drama

Blue ribbonSébastien David, Dimanche napalm[3]


  • Nathalie Boisvert, Antigone au printemps


  • Emma Haché, Exercice de l'oubli


  • Suzanne Lebeau, Trois petites sœurs


  • Kevin McCoy, Norge


Children's literature

Blue ribbonVéronique Drouin, L'importance de Mathilde Poisson[3]


  • Annie Bacon, Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d'une enfant sage


  • Jocelyn Boisvert, Les Moustiques


  • Roxane Desjardins, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire


  • K. Lambert, L'élixir du baron Von Rezine


Children's illustration

Blue ribbonJacques Goldstyn, Azadah[3]


  • Pascal Blanchet, En voiture! L'Amérique en chemin de fer


  • Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Louis parmi les spectres


  • Christiane Duchesne and Marion Arbona, Fred Petitchatminou


  • Renée Robitaille and Slavka Kolesar, La légende de Carcajou


English to French translation

Blue ribbonDaniel Poliquin, Un barbare en Chine nouvelle (Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China)[3]


  • Carole Noël and Marianne Noël-Allen, Le Sans-papiers (Lawrence Hill, The Illegal)


  • Paule Noyart, La disparition d'Heinrich Schlögel (Martha Baillie, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel)


  • Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Premières lueurs : mon combat contre le trouble de stress post-traumatique (Roméo Dallaire, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD)


  • Sophie Voillot, Le sous-majordome (Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor)


References




  1. ^ "Finalists named for 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 4, 2017.


  2. ^ abcdefgh "Joel Thomas Hynes, Cherie Dimaline win Governor General’s Literary Awards". Toronto Star, November 1, 2017.


  3. ^ abcdefg "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.




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