2017 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2017,[1] and the winners were announced on November 1.[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night[2]
Non-fiction Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State[2]
  • Sharon Butala, Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
  • Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts
  • Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
  • Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
Poetry Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood[2]
Drama Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm[2]
Children's literature Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves[2]
Children's illustration David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone[2]
French to English translation Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme)[2]

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Christian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige[3]
Non-fiction Serge Bouchard, Les Yeux tristes de mon camion[3]
  • Benoît Côté, Propositions de clarté
  • Daniel Grenier, La solitude de l'écrivain de fond
  • Nicolas Lévesque, Je sais trop bien ne pas exister
  • Ouanessa Younsi, Soigner, aimer
Poetry Louise Dupré, La Main hantée[3]
Drama Sébastien David, Dimanche napalm[3]
  • Nathalie Boisvert, Antigone au printemps
  • Emma Haché, Exercice de l'oubli
  • Suzanne Lebeau, Trois petites sœurs
  • Kevin McCoy, Norge
Children's literature Véronique Drouin, L'importance de Mathilde Poisson[3]
  • Annie Bacon, Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d'une enfant sage
  • Jocelyn Boisvert, Les Moustiques
  • Roxane Desjardins, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire
  • K. Lambert, L'élixir du baron Von Rezine
Children's illustration Jacques Goldstyn, Azadah[3]
English to French translation Daniel Poliquin, Un barbare en Chine nouvelle (Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China)[3]

References
  1. "Finalists named for 2017 Governor General's Literary Awards". Montreal Gazette, October 4, 2017.
  2. "Joel Thomas Hynes, Cherie Dimaline win Governor General’s Literary Awards". Toronto Star, November 1, 2017.
  3. "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize". CBC News, November 1, 2017.
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