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Canadian literary award
April 2026
The shortlisted nominees for the 2014 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2014,"Governor-General Literary Awards finalists unveiled". The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014. and the winners were announced on November 18."Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014. Each winner was awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Thomas King, The Back of the TurtleMichael Crummey, Sweetland
Bill Gaston, Juliet Was a Surprise
Claire Holden Rothman, My October
Joan Thomas, The Opening Sky Non-fiction Michael Harris, The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant ConnectionArno Kopecky, The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo, Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Maria Mutch, Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours Poetry Arleen Paré, Lake of Two MountainsChristopher Levenson, Night Vision
Garth Martens, Prologue for the Age of Consequence
Sadiqa de Meijer, Leaving Howe Island
Julie Joosten, Light Light Drama Jordan Tannahill, Age of Minority: Three Solo PlaysRick Chafe, The Secret Mask
Sean Dixon, A God in Need of Help
Janet Munsil, That Elusive Spark Children's literature Raziel Reid, When Everything Feels Like the MoviesJonathan Auxier, The Night Gardener
Lesley Choyce, Jeremy Stone
Rachel Qitsualik-Tinsley and Sean Qitsualik-Tinsley, Skraelings
Mariko Tamaki, This One Summer Children's illustration Jillian Tamaki, This One SummerMarie-Louise Gay, Any Questions?
Qin Leng, Hana Hashimoto, Sixth Violin
Renata Liwska, Once Upon a Memory
Julie Morstad, Julia, Child French to English translation Peter Feldstein, Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography (François-Marc Gagnon, Paul-Émile Borduas (1905-1960) : biographie critique et analyse de l'œuvre)Sheila Fischman, Wonder (Dominique Fortier, Les larmes de saint Laurent)
Linda Gaboriau, Christina, The Girl King (Michel Marc Bouchard, Christine, la reine-garçon)
Maureen Labonté, And Slowly Beauty (Michel Nadeau, Lentement la beauté)
Rhonda Mullins, Guyana (Élise Turcotte, Guyana)
French
CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Andrée A. Michaud, BondréeMichael Delisle, Le Feu de mon père
Alain Farah, Pourquoi Bologne
Robert Lalonde, C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier
Larry Tremblay, L'orangeraie Non-fiction Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, Tenir têteCatherine Ferland and Dave Corriveau, La Corriveau: De l'histoire à la légende
Bertrand Gervais, Un défaut de fabrication
Nicolas Lévesque and Catherine Mavrikakis, Ce que dit l'écorce
Jean-Jacques Pelletier, Questions d'écriture: Réponses à des lecteurs Poetry José Acquelin, Anarchie de la lumièreJoséphine Bacon, Un thé dans la toundra/Nipishapui nete mushuat
Paul Chanel Malenfant, Toujours jamais
Georgette LeBlanc, Prudent
Julie Stanton, Mémorial pour Geneviève et autres tombeaux Drama Carole Fréchette, Small TalkFrançois Archambault, Tu te souviendras de moi
Simon Boudreault, As is (tel quel)
Olivier Kemeid, Moi, dans les ruines rouges du siècle
Étienne Lepage, Histoires pour faire des cauchemars Children's literature Linda Amyot, Le jardin d'AmsterdamIndia Desjardins, Le Noël de Marguerite
Patrick Isabelle, Eux
Jean-François Sénéchal, Feu
Mélanie Tellier, Fiona Children's illustration Marianne Dubuc, Le lion et l'oiseauPascal Blanchet, Le Noël de Marguerite
Manon Gauthier, Grand-mère, elle et moi...
Isabelle Malenfant, Pablo trouve un trésor
Pierre Pratt, Gustave English to French translation Daniel Poliquin, L'Indien malcommode: un portrait inattendu des Autochtones d'Amérique du Nord (Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America)Éric Fontaine, Les Blondes (Emily Schultz, The Blondes)
Hervé Juste, Poisson d'avril (Josip Novakovich, April Fool's Day)
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, La femme Hokusai (Katherine Govier, The Ghost Brush)
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Une brève histoire des Indiens au Canada (Thomas King, A Short History of Indians in Canada)
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