2018 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018, and the winners will be announced on October 30..

English

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	TBA	Paige Cooper, Zolitude Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society Sarah Henstra, The Red Word Miriam Toews, Women Talking Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed
Non-fiction	TBA	Carys Cragg, Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Aida Edemariam, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age Abu Bakr al Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung, Homes: A Refugee Story
Poetry	TBA	Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk Joshua Mensch, Because: A Lyric Memoir Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang Jason Stefanik, Night Became Years
Drama	TBA	Keith Barker, This Is How We Got Here Anna Chatterton and Evalyn Parry, Gertrude and Alice Anosh Irani The Men in White Erin Shields, Paradise Lost Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom
Children's literature	TBA
Children's illustration	TBA
French to English translation	TBA	Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (Edem Awumey, Explication de la nuit) Vivian Felsen, Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu) Aleshia Jensen, Explosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination (Mathieu Poulin, Des explosions) Peter McCambridge, Songs for the Cold of Heart (Éric Dupont, La fiancée américaine Rhonda Mullins, Little Beast (Julie Demers, Barbe)

French

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction
Non-fiction
Poetry
Drama
Children's literature
Children's illustration
English to French translation

External links

• Governor General's Awards