The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,[1] and the winners were announced on October 29.[2]
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Fiction | Joan Thomas, Five Wives |
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Non-fiction | Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother |
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Poetry | Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild |
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Drama | Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game |
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Children's literature | Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky |
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Children's illustration | Sydney Smith, Small in the City |
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French to English translation | Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux) |
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Fiction | Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc[3] |
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Non-fiction | Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts |
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Poetry | Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os |
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Drama | Mishka Lavigne, Havre |
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Children's literature | Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange |
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Children's illustration | Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu |
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English to French translation | Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing) |
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