2016 Governor General's Awards

Canadian literary award April 2026 The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016,"Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016. and the winners were announced on October 25."Awards: Giller finalists Madeleine Thien and Lazer Lederhendler win 2016 GG Awards". Quill & Quire, October 25, 2016. English CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have NothingGary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates Anosh Irani, The Parcel Kerry Lee Powell, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush Katherena Vermette, The Break Non-fiction Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905Kamal Al-Solaylee, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone) Teva Harrison, In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer Harold R. Johnson, Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours) Marc Raboy, Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World Poetry Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes LateJoe Denham, Regeneration Machine Susan Holbrook, Throaty Wipes Garry Thomas Morse, Prairie Harbour Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn Drama Colleen Murphy, Pig GirlBrad Fraser, Kill Me Now Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, A Man A Fish Jordan Tannahill, Concord Floral Mary Vingoe, Refuge Children's literature Martine Leavitt, CalvinMikaela Everett, The Unquiet E. K. Johnston, A Thousand Nights Trilby Kent, Once, in a Town Called Moth Tim Wynne-Jones, The Emperor of Any Place Children's illustration Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a GardenJo Ellen Bogart and Sydney Smith, The White Cat and the Monk Lucy Ruth Cummins, A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals Mireille Messier and Pierre Pratt, The Branch Esmé Shapiro, Ooko French to English translation Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)Rhonda Mullins, Guano (Louis Carmain, Guano) Neil Smith, The Goddess of Fireflies (Geneviève Pettersen, La déesse des mouches à feu) French CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la merAnaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, La femme qui fuit Hugues Corriveau, Les Enfants de Liverpool Martine Delvaux, Blanc dehors Daniel Grenier, L'Année la plus longue Non-fiction Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtoneAndré Habib, La main gauche de Jean-Pierre Léaud Michel Morin, Être et ne pas être Yvon Rivard, Exercices d'amitié Louise Warren, La vie flottante Poetry Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de merLouise Bouchard, Personne et le soleil Antoine Dumas, Au monde inventaire Pierre Nepveu, La dureté des matières et de l'eau Rodney Saint-Éloi, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé Drama Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivreHervé Bouchard, Le faux pas de l'actrice dans sa traîne Michel Marc Bouchard, La divine illusion Sébastien David, Les haut-parleurs Olivier Kemeid, Five Kings : l'histoire de notre chute Children's literature François Gilbert, Hare KrishnaCamille Bouchard, Nouvelle-Orléans Mario Brassard, Quand hurle la nuit Amélie Dumoulin, Fé M Fé Patrick Isabelle, Camille Children's illustration Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la luneJules Asselin and Ninon Pelletier, Le mystère des billes d'or Simon Boulerice and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Florence et Léon Andrée Poulin and Marie Lafrance, Deux garçons et un secret Yayo, Pikiq 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)Christophe Bernard, Les hautes montagnes du Portugal (Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal) Daniel Poliquin, Le grand retour : le réveil autochtone (John Ralston Saul, The Comeback) Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Joshua (Mordecai Richler, Joshua Then and Now) Madeleine Stratford, Elle nage (Marianne Apostolides, Swim) References External links Governor General's Awards Category:Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards Governor General's Awards