2014 Governor General’s Literary Awards: Winners Announced
The Governor General's Literary Awards winners were announced on November 18, 2014. Awards were presented in fourteen different categories for both English and French authors and in categories for adults and children.
Drama:
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Winner:
Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays by Jordan Tannahill
Finalists:
A God in Need of Help by Sean Dixon
The Secret Mask by Rick Chafe
That Elusive Spark by Janet Munsil
Fiction:
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Winner:
The Back of the Turtle by Thomas King
• eBook
Finalists:
Juliet was a Surprise by Bill Gaston
• eBook
My October by Claire Holden Rothman
• eBook
The Opening Sky by Joan Thomas
• eBook
Sweetland by Michael Crummey
• eBook
Non-Fiction
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Winner:
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection by Michael Harris
Finalists:
Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours by Maria Mutch
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway by Arno Kopecky
Up Ghost River: A Chief's Journey through the Turbulent Waters of Native History by Edmund Metatawabin with Alexandra Shimo
Poetry:
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Winner:
Lake of Two Mountains by Arleen Paré
Finalists:
Leaving Howe Island by Sadiqa de Meijer
Light Light by Julie Joosten
Night Vision by Christopher Levenson
Prologue for the Age of Consequence by Garth Martens


















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