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
Fiction Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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)
  • 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 Late
Drama Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl
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
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
French to English translation Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
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
Poetry Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer
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
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
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
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)

References
  1. "Governor-General’s Literary Award short list a serious case of déjà vu". The Globe and Mail, October 4, 2016.
  2. "Awards: Giller finalists Madeleine Thien and Lazer Lederhendler win 2016 GG Awards". Quill & Quire, October 25, 2016.
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