The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,"Michael Crummey, Amanda Parris and Armand Garnet Ruffo among 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, October 2, 2019. and the winners were announced on October 29.Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2019.
English CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Joan Thomas, Five WivesMichael Crummey, The Innocents Cary Fagan, The Student Marianne Micros, Eye K. D. Miller, Late Breaking Non-fiction Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My BrotherBrian 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 Gwen Benaway, Holy WildJulie Bruck, How to Avoid Huge Ships Karen Houle, The Grand River Watershed: A Folk Ecology Catherine Hunter, St. Boniface Elegies Armand Garnet Ruffo, Treaty # Drama Amanda Parris, Other Side of the GameKevin Loring, Thanks for Giving Hannah Moscovitch, What a Young Wife Ought to Know Sean Harris Oliver, The Fighting Season Tetsuro Shigematsu, 1 Hour Photo Children's literature Erin Bow, Stand on the SkyBrian 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 Sydney Smith, Small in the CityIsabelle Arsenault, Albert's Quiet Quest Cary Fagan and Dena Seiferling, King Mouse Julie Flett, Birdsong Nicola Winstanley and John Martz, How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps French to English translation Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux)Louisa Blair, 887 (Robert Lepage, 887) Sheila Fischman, Vi (Kim Thúy, Vi) Rhonda Mullins, The Embalmer (Anne-Renée Caillé, L'embaumeur) Pablo Strauss, Synapses (Simon Brousseau, Synapses)
French CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc"Voici les gagnants et gagnantes des prestigieux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général". Ici Radio-Canada, October 29, 2019.Edem Awumey, Mina parmi les ombres Sylvie Drapeau, La terre Éléonore Goldberg, Maison fauve Mariève Maréchale, La Minotaure Non-fiction Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêtsDaniel 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 Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'osMichel Létourneau, La part habitée du ciel Louise Marois, La cuisine mortuaire Louis-Thomas Plamondon, Portages Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Fastes Drama Mishka Lavigne, HavreÉvelyne de la Chenelière, La vie utile, précédé de Errance et tremblements Rachel Graton, La nuit du 4 au 5 Lisa L'Heureux, Et si un soir Annick Lefebvre, Children's literature Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésangeLucie 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 Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perduSimon 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 Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)Nicolas Calvé, L'animal langage : la compétence linguistique humaine (Charles Taylor, The Language Animal) Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le Yiddish à l'usage des pirates (Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates) Madeleine Stratford, Pilleurs de rêves (Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves) Sophie Voillot, Onze jours en septembre (Kathleen Winter, Lost in September)
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