The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019, [1] and the winners were announced on October 29. [2]
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Joan Thomas, Five Wives [2] |
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| Non-fiction | Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother [2] |
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| Poetry | Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild [2] |
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| Drama | Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game [2] |
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| Children's literature | Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky [2] |
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| Children's illustration | Sydney Smith, Small in the City [2] |
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| French to English translation | Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux) [2] |
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| Category | Winner | Nominated |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction | Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc [3] |
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| Non-fiction | Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts [3] |
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| Poetry | Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os [3] |
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| Drama | Mishka Lavigne, Havre [3] |
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| Children's literature | Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange [3] |
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| Children's illustration | Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu [3] |
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| English to French translation | Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing ) [3] |
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