2024 Governor General's Awards Explained

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

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Fiction Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces
Non-fiction 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 Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel
Drama Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
Children's literature 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 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 Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix)

French

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Fiction Steve Poutré, Lait cru
Non-fiction 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 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 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 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 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 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)

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Notes and 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.