2024 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 8, 2024, [1] and the winners were announced on November 13. [2]

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English

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Niigaan Sinclair, Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre
  • Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch
  • Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
  • Danny Ramadan, Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
  • Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow
Children's literature Blueribbon icon.png Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing
Children's illustration Blueribbon icon.png Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea
French to English translation Blueribbon icon.png Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix)

French

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Steve Poutré, Lait cru
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau, Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png Névé Dumas, poème dégénéré
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Sarah Berthiaume, Wollstonecraft
Children's literature Blueribbon icon.png Stéfani Meunier, Une bulle en dehors du temps
Children's illustration Blueribbon icon.png Ovila Fontaine and Charlotte Parent, Le premier arbre de Noël
English to French translation Blueribbon icon.png Éric Fontaine, Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage (Philip Lee, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River)

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