2017 Governor General’s Literary Award Winners
The winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on November 1, 2017. The awards are presented in 14 categories and include books for adults and children in both official languages.
This year's winners are:
Drama Winner:
Indian Arm by Hiro Kanagawa
Drama Finalists:
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1979 by Michael Healey
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams by Robert Chafe
The Virgin Trial by Kate Hennig
Within the Glass by Anna Chatterton
Fiction Winner:
We'll all be Burnt in our Beds Some Night by Joel Thomas Hynes
• ebook
Fiction Finalists:
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All the Beloved Ghosts by Alison MacLeod
• ebook
Lost in September by Kathleen Winter
• ebook
Uncertain Weights and Measures by Jocelyn Parr
• ebook
The Water Beetles by Michael Kaan
• ebook
Nonfiction Winner:
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State by Graeme Wood
• e-audiobook
• ebook
Non-Fiction Finalists:
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All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others by Carol Off
The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational by Elaine Dewar
• ebook
Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope by Sharon Butala
• ebook
Where it Hurts by Sarah de Leeuw
Poetry Winner:
On Not Losing my Father's Ashes in the Flood by Richard Harrison
Poetry Finalists:
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All the Names Between by Julia McCarthy
• ebook
Selah by Nora Gould
Slow War by Benjamin Hertwig
• ebook
What the Soul doesn't Want by Lorna Crozier
• ebook
Translation: French to English Winner:
Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure, translated by Oana Avasilichioaei
• ebook
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Brothers by David Clerson, translated by Katia Grubisic
• ebook
In Search of New Babylon by Dominique Scali, translated by Donald Wilson
The Longest Year by Daniel Grenier, translated by Pablo Strauss
• ebook
Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries by Gérard Bouchard, translated by Howard Scott
The complete list of winners and finalists in all categories can be found on the award website.
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