2024 Governor General's Awards

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]

English

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces	Paola Ferrante, Her Body Among Animals Oonya Kempadoo, Naniki Canisia Lubrin, Code Noir Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island
Non-fiction	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	Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel	Brandi Bird, The All + Flesh Bradley Peters, Sonnets from a Cell Bren Simmers, The Work Barbara Tran, Precedented Parenting
Drama	Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow	Makram Ayache, The Green Line Scott Jones and Robert Chafe, I Forgive You Mishka Lavigne, Shorelines Pamela Mala Sinha, New
Children's literature	Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing	Cherie Dimaline, Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix Shari Green, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves Kristy Jackson, Mortified
Children's illustration	Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea	Danielle Daniel and Matt James, I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf Adam de Souza, The Gulf Thao Lam, One Giant Leap Sydney Smith, Do You Remember?
French to English translation	Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix)	Melissa Bull, Morel (Maxime Raymond Bock, Morel) Aleshia Jensen, So Long Sad Love (Mirion Malle, Adieu triste amour) Lazer Lederhendler, The Hollow Beast (Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse) Aimee Wall, Sadie X (Clara Dupuis-Morency, Sadie X)

French

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Steve Poutré, Lait cru	Pascale Beauregard, Muette Louis-Daniel Godin, Le Compte est bon Emmanuelle Pierrot, La version qui n’intéresse personne Mathieu Rolland, De grandes personnes
Non-fiction	Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau, Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel	Geneviève Boudreau, Une abeille suffit : Carnet d’observation d’un jardin urbain Léa Clermont-Dion, Porter plainte Jérôme Cotte, Oser l’humour éthique : De Socrate à Virginie Fortin Stanley Péan, Noir satin
Poetry	Névé Dumas, poème dégénéré	Jonas Fortier, L'Air fou Annie Landreville, Les couteaux dans ma gorge ne sont pas des fruits de mer Olivier Leroux-Picard, Soleil sans heures Emmanuel Simard, Lettres au ciel blanc
Drama	Sarah Berthiaume, Wollstonecraft	Olivier Choinière, La dernière cassette : Un portrait d’André Brassard Isabelle Hubert, Rose Geneviève Labelle and Mélodie Noël Rousseau, Ciseaux Johanne Parent, Ornithorynques
Children's literature	Stéfani Meunier, Une bulle en dehors du temps	Moira-Uashteskun Bacon, Envole-toi, Mikun Dominique Chicoine, Les quatre vérités Marc-André Dufour-Labbé, Carreauté Kid Jean-Guy Forget and Mélodie Bujold-Henri, Déménager au ciel
Children's illustration	Ovila Fontaine and Charlotte Parent, Le premier arbre de Noël	Marie-Andrée Arsenault and Dominique Leroux, Le fil d'Alphée Iris Boudreau and Richard Écrapou, Margot veut une moustache Marianne Ferrer, Jour d’orage Caroline Merola, Histoires fantastiques (et peut-être vraies)
English to French translation	Éric Fontaine, Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage (Philip Lee, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River)	Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, Mourir pour la cause : Révolution dans le Québec des années 1960 (Chris Oliveros, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? Revolution in 1960s Quebec) Daniel Grenier, Charlie Muskrat (Harold R. Johnson, Charlie Muskrat) Madeleine Stratford, Cours vers le danger (Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory) Sophie Voillot, La messagère (Thomas Wharton, The Book of Rain)

References

1. Cassandra Drudi, "Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists". Quill & Quire, October 8, 2024.
2. Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.

External links

• Governor General's Awards