2016 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016,[1] and the winners were announced on October 25.[2]
English
| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
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| Fiction |
 Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
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| Non-fiction |
Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 |
- Kamal Al-Solaylee, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)
- Harold R. Johnson, Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)
- Marc Raboy, Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
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| Poetry |
Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late |
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| Drama |
Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl |
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| Children's literature |
Martine Leavitt, Calvin |
- Mikaela 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
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| Children's illustration |
Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden |
- Jo 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
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| French to English translation |
Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen) |
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French
| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
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| Fiction |
Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer |
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| Non-fiction |
Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone |
- André 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
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| Poetry |
Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer |
- Louise 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
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| Drama |
Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre |
- Hervé 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
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| Children's literature |
François Gilbert, Hare Krishna |
- Camille Bouchard, Nouvelle-Orléans
- Mario Brassard, Quand hurle la nuit
- Amélie Dumoulin, Fé M Fé
- Patrick Isabelle, Camille
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| Children's illustration |
Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune |
- Jules 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
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| 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) |
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References
External links
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Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit