2016 Governor General's Awards
Canadian literary award
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
Category | Winner | Nominated |
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Fiction | Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
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Non-fiction | Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 |
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Poetry | Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late |
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Drama | Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl |
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Children's literature | Martine Leavitt, Calvin |
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Children's illustration | Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden |
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French to English translation | Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen) |
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French
Category | Winner | Nominated |
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Fiction | Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer |
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Non-fiction | Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone |
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Poetry | Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer |
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Drama | Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre |
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Children's literature | François Gilbert, Hare Krishna |
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Children's illustration | Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune |
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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) |
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References
- ^ "Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016.
- ^ "Awards: Giller finalists Madeleine Thien and Lazer Lederhendler win 2016 GG Awards". Quill & Quire, October 25, 2016.
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