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, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja, 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	Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie Janice Lynn Mather, Learning to Breathe Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut, Winnie's Great War Heather Smith, Ebb & Flow
Children's illustration	TBA	The Fan Brothers, Ocean Meets Sky Shauntay Grant and Eva Campbell, Africville Wab Kinew and Joe Morse, Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue Werner Zimmermann, At the Pond
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	TBA	Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse Maxime Raymond Bock, Les noyades secondaires Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish Karoline Georges, De synthèse Olivier Sylvestre, Noms fictifs
Non-fiction	TBA	Pierre Anctil, Histoire des juifs du Québec Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren, Le piège de la liberté : les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux Gabrielle Giasson-Dulude, Les chants du mime : en compagnie d’Étienne Decroux Frédérick Lavoie, Avant l’après : voyages à Cuba avec George Orwell Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Mégantic
Poetry	TBA	Daria Colonna, Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle Roxane Desjardins, Le revers Catherine Lalonde, La dévoration des fées France Théoret, Cruauté du jeu Michaël Trahan, La raison des fleurs
Drama	TBA	Christine Beaulieu, J'aime Hydro Steve Gagnon, La montagne blanche Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Invisibles Anne-Marie Olivier, Venir au monde Michel Tremblay, Enfant insignifiant!
Children's literature	TBA	Jonathan Bécotte, Maman veut partir Jocelyn Boisvert, Un dernier songe avant le grand sommeil Camille Bouchard, 13000 ans et des poussières Mario Brassard, Ferdinand F., 81 ans, chenille Brigitte Vaillancourt, Les marées
Children's illustration	TBA	Marianne Dubuc, Le chemin de la montagne Marianne Ferrer and India Desjardins, Une histoire de cancer qui finit bien Gabriella Gendreau and Nahid Kazemi, Les mots d'Eunice Jacques Goldstyn, Jules et Jim : frères d’armes Nicole Testa and Annie Boulanger, Lili Macaroni : je suis comme je suis!
English to French translation	TBA	Éric Fontaine, Sweetland (Michael Crummey, Sweetland) Daniel Grenier and William S. Messier, De l’utilité de l’ennui : textes de balle (Andrew Forbes, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays) Laurence Gough, Naissances (Kate Cayley, How You Were Born) Catherine Leroux, Le saint patron des merveilles (Mark Frutkin, Fabrizio's Return) Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le monde selon Barney (Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version)

External links

• Governor General's Awards