2024 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 8, 2024,[1] and the winners were announced on November 13.[2]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Niigaan Sinclair, Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
  • Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch
  • Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • Danny Ramadan, Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
  • Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
Poetry Blue ribbon Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel
Drama Blue ribbon Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
Children's literature Blue ribbon Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing
  • Cherie Dimaline, Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix
  • Shari Green, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams
  • June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves
  • Kristy Jackson, Mortified
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
  • Danielle Daniel and Matt James, I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf
  • Adam de Souza, The Gulf
  • Thao Lam, One Giant Leap
  • Sydney Smith, Do You Remember?
French to English translation Blue ribbon Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix)

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Steve Poutré, Lait cru
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau, Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel
  • Geneviève Boudreau, Une abeille suffit : Carnet d’observation d’un jardin urbain
  • Léa Clermont-Dion, Porter plainte
  • Jérôme Cotte, Oser l’humour éthique : De Socrate à Virginie Fortin
  • Stanley Péan, Noir satin
Poetry Blue ribbon Névé Dumas, poème dégénéré
  • Jonas Fortier, L'Air fou
  • Annie Landreville, Les couteaux dans ma gorge ne sont pas des fruits de mer
  • Olivier Leroux-Picard, Soleil sans heures
  • Emmanuel Simard, Lettres au ciel blanc
Drama Blue ribbon Sarah Berthiaume, Wollstonecraft
  • Olivier Choinière, La dernière cassette : Un portrait d’André Brassard
  • Isabelle Hubert, Rose
  • Geneviève Labelle and Mélodie Noël Rousseau, Ciseaux
  • Johanne Parent, Ornithorynques
Children's literature Blue ribbon Stéfani Meunier, Une bulle en dehors du temps
  • Moira-Uashteskun Bacon, Envole-toi, Mikun
  • Dominique Chicoine, Les quatre vérités
  • Marc-André Dufour-Labbé, Carreauté Kid
  • Jean-Guy Forget and Mélodie Bujold-Henri, Déménager au ciel
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Ovila Fontaine and Charlotte Parent, Le premier arbre de Noël
  • Marie-Andrée Arsenault and Dominique Leroux, Le fil d'Alphée
  • Iris Boudreau and Richard Écrapou, Margot veut une moustache
  • Marianne Ferrer, Jour d’orage
  • Caroline Merola, Histoires fantastiques (et peut-être vraies)
English to French translation Blue ribbon Éric Fontaine, Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage (Philip Lee, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River)
  • Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, Mourir pour la cause : Révolution dans le Québec des années 1960 (Chris Oliveros, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? Revolution in 1960s Quebec)
  • Daniel Grenier, Charlie Muskrat (Harold R. Johnson, Charlie Muskrat)
  • Madeleine Stratford, Cours vers le danger (Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory)
  • Sophie Voillot, La messagère (Thomas Wharton, The Book of Rain)

References

  1. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists". Quill & Quire, October 8, 2024.
  2. ^ Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.
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