2017 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2017, [1] and the winners were announced on November 1. [2]

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English

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night [2]
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State [2]
  • Sharon Butala, Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
  • Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts
  • Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
  • Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood [2]
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm [2]
Children's literature Blueribbon icon.png Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves [2]
Children's illustration Blueribbon icon.png David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone [2]
French to English translation Blueribbon icon.png Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme) [2]

French

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Christian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige [3]
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Serge Bouchard, Les Yeux tristes de mon camion [3]
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png Louise Dupré, La Main hantée [3]
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Sébastien David, Dimanche napalm [3]
Children's literature Blueribbon icon.png Véronique Drouin, L'importance de Mathilde Poisson [3]
Children's illustration Blueribbon icon.png Jacques Goldstyn, Azadah [3]
English to French translation Blueribbon icon.png Daniel Poliquin, Un barbare en Chine nouvelle (Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China) [3]

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