Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
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The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English. Beginning 1987[1] it is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. Originally presented by the Canadian Authors Association,[clarification needed] the Governor General's Awards program became a project of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1959.[2] The age requirement is 18 and up.
The program was created in 1937 and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards.[1]
The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Omitted only for 1981, the advance shortlist has numbered three to six; from 1997, always five.
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Contents
1 Winners and nominees
1.1 1930s
1.2 1940s
1.3 1950s
1.4 1960s
1.5 1970s
1.6 1980s
1.7 1990s
1.8 2000s
1.9 2010s
2 References
3 External links
Winners and nominees
1930s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1936 | Bertram Brooker | Think of the Earth |
1937 | Laura Salverson | The Dark Weaver |
1938 | Gwethalyn Graham | Swiss Sonata |
1939 | Franklin D. McDowell | The Champlain Road |
1940s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1940 | Ringuet | Thirty Acres |
1941 | Alan Sullivan | Three Came to Ville Marie |
1942 | G. Herbert Sallans | Little Man |
1943 | Thomas H. Raddall | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek |
1944 | Gwethalyn Graham | Earth and High Heaven |
1945 | Hugh MacLennan | Two Solitudes |
1946 | Winifred Bambrick | Continental Revue |
1947 | Gabrielle Roy | The Tin Flute |
1948 | Hugh MacLennan | The Precipice |
1949 | Philip Child | Mr. Ames Against Time |
1950s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1950 | Germaine Guèvremont | The Outlander |
1951 | Morley Callaghan | The Loved and the Lost |
1952 | David Walker | The Pillar |
1953 | David Walker | Digby |
1954 | Igor Gouzenko | The Fall of a Titan |
1955 | Lionel Shapiro | The Sixth of June |
1956 | Adele Wiseman | The Sacrifice |
1957 | Gabrielle Roy | Street of Riches |
1958 | Colin McDougall | Execution |
1959 | Hugh MacLennan | The Watch That Ends the Night |
1960s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1960 | Brian Moore | The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
1961 | Malcolm Lowry | Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place |
1962 | Kildare Dobbs | Running to Paradise |
1963 | Hugh Garner | Hugh Garner's Best Stories |
1964 | Douglas LePan | The Deserter |
1965 | No award presented | |
1966 | Margaret Laurence | A Jest of God |
1967 | No award presented | |
1968 | Alice Munro | Dance of the Happy Shades |
1969 | Robert Kroetsch | The Studhorse Man |
1970s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1970 | Dave Godfrey | The New Ancestors |
1971 | Mordecai Richler | St. Urbain's Horseman |
1972 | Robertson Davies | The Manticore |
1973 | Rudy Wiebe | The Temptations of Big Bear |
1974 | Margaret Laurence | The Diviners |
1975 | Brian Moore | The Great Victorian Collection |
1976 | Marian Engel | Bear |
1977 | Timothy Findley | The Wars |
1978 | Alice Munro | Who Do You Think You Are? |
1979 | Jack Hodgins | The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne |
Margaret Atwood | Life Before Man | |
Matt Cohen | The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone |
1980s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1980 | George Bowering | Burning Water |
Susan Musgrave | The Charcoal Burners | |
Leon Rooke | Fat Woman | |
1981 | Mavis Gallant | Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories |
1982 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | Man Descending |
Alice Munro | The Moons of Jupiter | |
Chris Scott | Antichthon | |
1983 | Leon Rooke | Shakespeare's Dog |
Philip Kreiner | People Like Us in a Place Like This | |
H. R. Percy | Painted Ladies | |
Susan Swan | The Biggest Modern Woman of the World | |
1984 | Josef Skvorecky | The Engineer of Human Souls |
Timothy Findley | Not Wanted on the Voyage | |
Susan Kerslake | The Book of Fears | |
Audrey Thomas | Intertidal Life | |
1985 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
Sharon Butala | Queen of the Headaches | |
Keath Fraser | Foreign Affairs | |
David Adams Richards | Road to the Stilt House | |
1986 | Alice Munro | The Progress of Love |
Lois Braun | A Stone Watermelon | |
John Metcalf | Adult Entertainment | |
Aritha van Herk | No Fixed Address | |
1987 | M. T. Kelly | A Dream Like Mine |
David Gurr | The Ring Master | |
Rohinton Mistry | Tales from Firozsha Baag | |
Michael Ondaatje | In the Skin of a Lion | |
Carol Shields | Swann: A Mystery | |
1988 | David Adams Richards | Nights Below Station Street |
Margaret Atwood | Cat's Eye | |
Joan Clark | The Victory of Geraldine Gull | |
Mark Frutkin | Atmospheres Apollinaire | |
Kenneth Radu | The Cost of Living | |
1989 | Paul Quarrington | Whale Music |
Ann Copeland | The Golden Thread | |
Helen Weinzweig | A View from the Roof |
1990s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
1990 | Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints |
Sky Lee | Disappearing Moon Café | |
Alice Munro | Friend of My Youth | |
Leslie Hall Pinder | On Double Tracks | |
Diane Schoemperlen | Man of My Dreams | |
1991 | Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey |
Margaret Atwood | Wilderness Tips | |
Don Dickinson | Blue Husbands | |
Douglas Glover | A Guide to Animal Behaviour | |
Terry Griggs | Quickening | |
1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
Sandra Birdsell | The Chrome Suite | |
Archie Crail | The Bonus Deal | |
John Steffler | The Afterlife of George Cartwright | |
Sheila Watson | Deep Hollow Creek | |
1993 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
Caroline Adderson | Bad Imaginings | |
Thomas King | Green Grass, Running Water | |
David Adams Richards | For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down | |
Carol Windley | Visible Light | |
1994 | Rudy Wiebe | A Discovery of Strangers |
Margaret Atwood | The Robber Bride | |
Donna McFarlane | Division of Surgery | |
Alice Munro | Open Secrets | |
Russell Smith | How Insensitive | |
1995 | Greg Hollingshead | The Roaring Girl |
Diana Atkinson | Highways and Dancehalls | |
Barbara Gowdy | Mister Sandman | |
Julie Keith | The Jaguar Temple | |
Richard B. Wright | The Age of Longing | |
1996 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | The Englishman's Boy |
Margaret Atwood | Alias Grace | |
Elisabeth Harvor | Let Me Be the One | |
Janice Kulyk Keefer | The Green Library | |
Cordelia Strube | Teaching Pigs to Sing | |
Audrey Thomas | Coming Down from Wa | |
1997 | Jane Urquhart | The Underpainter |
Sandra Birdsell | The Two-Headed Calf | |
Matt Cohen | Last Seen | |
Elizabeth Hay | Small Change | |
Eric McCormack | First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women | |
1998 | Diane Schoemperlen | Forms of Devotion |
Lynn Coady | Strange Heaven | |
Barbara Gowdy | The White Bone | |
Wayne Johnston | The Colony of Unrequited Dreams | |
Kerri Sakamoto | The Electrical Field | |
1999 | Matt Cohen | Elizabeth and After |
Neil Bissoondath | The Worlds Within Her | |
Anne Fleming | Pool-hopping and Other Stories | |
Elyse Gasco | Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? | |
Keith Maillard | Gloria |
2000s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
2000 | Michael Ondaatje | Anil's Ghost |
Margaret Atwood | The Blind Assassin | |
Austin Clarke | The Question | |
David Adams Richards | Mercy Among the Children | |
Eden Robinson | Monkey Beach | |
2001 | Richard B. Wright | Clara Callan |
Yann Martel | Life of Pi | |
Tessa McWatt | Dragons Cry | |
Jane Urquhart | The Stone Carvers | |
Thomas Wharton | Salamander | |
2002 | Gloria Sawai | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
David Bergen | The Case of Lena S. | |
Ann Ireland | Exile | |
Wayne Johnston | The Navigator of New York | |
Carol Shields | Unless | |
2003 | Douglas Glover | Elle |
Margaret Atwood | Oryx and Crake | |
Elizabeth Hay | Garbo Laughs | |
Jean McNeil | Private View | |
Edeet Ravel | Ten Thousand Lovers | |
2004 | Miriam Toews | A Complicated Kindness |
David Bezmozgis | Natasha and Other Stories | |
Trevor Cole | Norman Bray, In the Performance of His Life | |
Colin McAdam | Some Great Thing | |
Alice Munro | Runaway | |
2005 | David Gilmour | A Perfect Night to Go to China |
Joseph Boyden | Three Day Road | |
Golda Fried | Nellcott Is My Darling | |
Charlotte Gill | Ladykiller | |
Kathy Page | Alphabet | |
2006 | Peter Behrens | The Law of Dreams |
Trevor Cole | The Fearsome Particles | |
Bill Gaston | Gargoyles | |
Paul Glennon | The Dodecahedron, or A Frame for Frames | |
Rawi Hage | De Niro's Game | |
2007 | Michael Ondaatje | Divisadero |
David Chariandy | Soucouyant | |
Barbara Gowdy | Helpless | |
Heather O'Neill | Lullabies for Little Criminals | |
M. G. Vassanji | The Assassin's Song | |
2008 | Nino Ricci | The Origin of Species |
Rivka Galchen | Atmospheric Disturbances | |
Rawi Hage | Cockroach | |
David Adams Richards | The Lost Highway | |
Fred Stenson | The Great Karoo | |
2009 | Kate Pullinger | The Mistress of Nothing |
Michael Crummey | Galore | |
Annabel Lyon | The Golden Mean | |
Alice Munro | Too Much Happiness | |
Deborah Willis | Vanishing and Other Stories |
2010s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
2010 | Dianne Warren | Cool Water |
Sandra Birdsell | Waiting for Joe | |
Emma Donoghue | Room | |
Drew Hayden Taylor | Motorcycles & Sweetgrass | |
Kathleen Winter | Annabel | |
2011 | Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers |
David Bezmozgis | The Free World | |
Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | |
Marina Endicott | The Little Shadow | |
Alexi Zentner | Touch | |
2012 | Linda Spalding | The Purchase |
Tamas Dobozy | Siege 13 | |
Robert Hough | Dr. Brinkley's Tower | |
Vincent Lam | The Headmaster's Wager | |
Carrie Snyder | The Juliet Stories | |
2013[3] | Eleanor Catton[4] | The Luminaries[4] |
Kenneth Bonert | The Lion Seeker | |
Joseph Boyden | The Orenda | |
Colin McAdam | A Beautiful Truth | |
Shyam Selvadurai | The Hungry Ghosts | |
2014[5] | Thomas King | The Back of the Turtle |
Michael Crummey | Sweetland | |
Bill Gaston | Juliet Was a Surprise | |
Claire Holden Rothman | My October | |
Joan Thomas | The Opening Sky | |
2015 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | Daddy Lenin and Other Stories |
Kate Cayley | How You Were Born | |
Rachel Cusk | Outline | |
Helen Humphreys | The Evening Chorus | |
Clifford Jackman | The Winter Family | |
2016 | Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
Gary Barwin | Yiddish for Pirates | |
Anosh Irani | The Parcel | |
Kerry Lee Powell | Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush | |
Katherena Vermette | The Break | |
2017 | Joel Thomas Hynes | We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night |
Michael Kaan | The Water Beetles | |
Alison MacLeod | All the Beloved Ghosts | |
Jocelyn Parr | Uncertain Weights and Measures | |
Kathleen Winter | Lost in September | |
2018 | Sarah Henstra | The Red Word |
Paige Cooper | Zolitude | |
Rawi Hage | Beirut Hellfire Society | |
Miriam Toews | Women Talking | |
Joshua Whitehead | Jonny Appleseed |
References
^ ab
"Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-18.
^
"Governor General's Literary Awards". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
^ "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
^ ab "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries". Toronto Star, November 13, 2013.
^ "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
External links
Governor General award winners at Faded Page
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