2019 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019, and the winners will be announced on October 29.

English

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	TBA	Michael Crummey, The Innocents Cary Fagan, The Student Marianne Micros, Eye K. D. Miller, Late Breaking Joan Thomas, Five Wives
Non-fiction	TBA	Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother Brian 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	TBA	Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild Julie 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	TBA	Kevin Loring, Thanks for Giving Hannah Moscovitch, What a Young Wife Ought to Know Sean Harris Oliver, The Fighting Season Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game Tetsuro Shigematsu, 1 Hour Photo
Children's literature	TBA	Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky Brian Francis, Break in Case of Emergency Sue Farrell Holler, Cold White Sun Michelle Kadarusman, Girl of the Southern Sea Joe Treggiari, The Grey Sisters
Children's illustration	TBA	Isabelle Arsenault, Albert's Quiet Quest Cary Fagan and Dena Seiferling, King Mouse Julie Flett, Birdsong Sydney Smith, Small in the City Nicola Winstanley and John Martz, How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps
French to English translation	TBA	Louisa Blair, 887 (Robert Lepage, 887) Sheila Fischman, Vi (Kim Thúy, Vi) Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux) Rhonda Mullins, The Embalmer (Anne-Renée Caillé, L'embaumeur) Pablo Strauss, Synapses (Simon Brousseau, Synapses)

French

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

External links

• Governor General's Awards