2016 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016, [1] and the winners were announced on October 25. [2]

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English

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl
Children's literature Blueribbon icon.png Martine Leavitt, Calvin
Children's illustration Blueribbon icon.png Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden
French to English translation Blueribbon icon.png Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)

French

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre
Children's literature Blueribbon icon.png François Gilbert, Hare Krishna
Children's illustration Blueribbon icon.png Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune
English to French translation Blueribbon icon.png Catherine Ego, La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone (James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains)

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