2016 Governor General’s Literary Awards Winners
The winners of the Governor General’s Literary Awards were announced on October 25, 2016.
These are the winners in the 5 adult English categories:
Drama Winner:
Pig Girl by Colleen Murphy
Finalists:
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Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill
Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser
A Man A Fish by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard
Refuge by Mary Vingoe
Fiction Winner:
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien
• eBook
Finalists:
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The Break by Katherena Vermette
• eBook
The Parcel by Anosh Irani
• eBook
Willem de Kooning’s Paintbrush: Stories by Kerry-Lee Powell
• eBook
Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin
• eBook
Non-Fiction Winner:
A World we have Lost: Saskatchewan before 1905 by Bill Waiser
Finalists:
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Brown: What Being Brown Means in the World Today (to Everyone) by Kamal Al-Solaylee
• eBook
Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing my People (and Yours) by Harold R. Johnson
In Between Days: A Graphic Memoir about Living with Cancer by Teva Harrison
Marconi: the Man who Networked the World by Marc Raboy
Poetry Winner:
The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton
Finalists:
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Marry & Burn by Rachel Rose
Prairie Harbour by Garry Thomas Morse
Regeneration Machine by Joe Denham
Throaty Wipes by Susan Holbrook
• eBook
Translation: French to English Winner:
The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
• eBook
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The Goddess of Fireflies by Geneviève Pettersen, translated by Neil Smith
Guano by Louis Carmain, translated by Rhonda Mullins
• eBook
The full list of winners can be found on the Governor General’s Literary Awards website.
A prize of $25,000 is given to the winning author, translator or illustrator in each category. The other finalists receive $1000. The publisher of the winner is given $3000 to aid with promotional activities.
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