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- Also known as:
- the GGs
- Related Topics:
- Canadian literature
- Notable Honorees:
- Margaret Atwood
- Alice Munro
- Mavis Gallant
- Timothy Findley
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood has won Governor General's Literary Awards for her poetry (The Circle Game, 1966) and her fiction (The Handmaid's Tale, 1985).
Governor Generalâs Literary Awards
Canadian awards
Also known as: the GGs
Governor Generalâs Literary Awards, series of Canadian literary awards established in 1936 by the Canadian Authors Association (CAA), in association with Scottish-born Canadian writer John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, who was the author of Thirty-nine Steps (1915), governor-general of Canada (1935â40), and honorary president of the CAA. The awards, at first called the Dominion Literary Awards, were presented the following year as the Governor Generalâs Literary Awards.
The awards were initially administered by the CAA and were presented for the best works in English or French-to-English translation in fiction, general literature, and poetry. When responsibility for the award was transferred to the Canada Council for the Arts, in 1959, analogous prizes for works in French were added. The Canada Council for the Arts reclassified its prizes for childrenâs literature (text and illustration) and translation as Governor Generalâs Literary Awards in 1987. Authors were required to hold Canadian citizenship or permanent residency. The winners in each category were determined by committees of writers and critics. Recent scholarship has suggested that a number of winning volumes were mistakenly omitted from the official list of winners because of record-keeping errors.
Though the awards were originally presented without a monetary prize, increasing sums of money were later added. Unusually, finalists in each category were awarded lesser sums, and the publishers of the winning volumes received funding for promotion.
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Notable winners have included Marshall McLuhan, Marie-Claire Blais, Margaret Atwood, Mordecai Richler, André Brochu, and Michael Ondaatje.
See also Canadian literature.
Winners of the Governor Generalâs Literary Award (English)
Winners of the Governor Generalâs Literary Award (English) are listed in the table. The table is an abbreviated version of the official record maintained by the Canada Council for the Arts. The prize categories have been simplified for purposes of consistency and clarity.
| year | category** | recipient | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| *The Governor General's Literary Awards were restricted to works written in English from their 1936 inception until 1959, when separate categories were established for works written in French. | |||
| **Children's literature and French-English translation categories have been omitted from this table. | |||
| 1936 | Fiction | Bertram Brooker | Think of the Earth |
| Nonfiction | T.B. Roberton | T.B.R., Newspaper Pieces | |
| 1937 | Fiction | Laura G. Salverson | The Dark Weaver: Against the Sombre Background of the Old Generations Flame the Scarlet Banners of the New |
| Poetry or Drama | E.J. Pratt | The Fable of the Goats and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction | Stephen Leacock | My Discovery of the West: A Discussion of East and West in Canada | |
| 1938 | Fiction | Gwethalyn Graham | Swiss Sonata |
| Poetry or Drama | Kenneth Leslie | By Stubborn Stars and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction | John Murray Gibbon | Canadian Mosaic: The Making of a Northern Nation | |
| 1939 | Fiction | Franklin D. McDowell | The Champlain Road |
| Poetry or Drama | Arthur S. Bourinot | Under the Sun | |
| Nonfiction | Laura G. Salverson | Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter | |
| 1940 | Fiction | Ringuet (pseudonym of Philippe Panneton) | Trente arpents (Thirty Acres) |
| Poetry or Drama | E.J. Pratt | Brébeuf and His Brethren | |
| Nonfiction | James Frederick Church Wright | Slava Bohu: The Story of the Dukhobors | |
| 1941 | Fiction | Alan Sullivan | Three Came to Ville Marie |
| Poetry or Drama | Anne Marriott | Calling Adventurers! | |
| Nonfiction | Emily Carr | Klee Wyck | |
| 1942 | Fiction | G. Herbert Sallans | Little Man |
| Poetry or Drama | Earle Birney | David and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Bruce Hutchison | The Unknown Country: Canada and Her People | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Edgar McInnis | The Unguarded Frontier: A History of American-Canadian Relations | |
| 1943 | Fiction | Thomas H. Raddall | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek and Other Tales |
| Poetry or Drama | A.J.M. Smith | News of the Phoenix and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | John D. Robins | The Incomplete Anglers | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | E.K. Brown | ...On Canadian Poetry | |
| 1944 | Fiction | Gwethalyn Graham | Earth and High Heaven |
| Poetry or Drama | Dorothy Livesay | Day and Night | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Dorothy Duncan | Partner in Three Worlds | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Edgar McInnis | The War: Fourth Year | |
| 1945 | Fiction | Hugh MacLennan | Two Solitudes |
| Poetry or Drama | Earle Birney | Now Is Time | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Evelyn May Fox Richardson | We Keep a Light | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Ross Munro | Gauntlet to Overlord: The Story of the Canadian Army | |
| 1946 | Fiction | Winifred Bambrick | Continental Revue |
| Poetry or Drama | Robert Finch | Poems | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Frederick Philip Grove | In Search of Myself | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | A.R.M. Lower | Colony to Nation: A History of Canada | |
| 1947 | Fiction | Gabrielle Roy | Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) |
| Poetry or Drama | Dorothy Livesay | Poems for People | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | William Sclater | Haida | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | R. MacGregor Dawson | The Government of Canada | |
| 1948 | Fiction | Hugh MacLennan | The Precipice |
| Poetry or Drama | A.M. Klein | The Rocking Chair and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Thomas H. Raddall | Halifax, Warden of the North | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | C.P. Stacey | The Canadian Army, 1939â1945: An Official Historical Summary | |
| 1949 | Fiction | Philip Child | Mr. Ames Against Time |
| Poetry or Drama | James Reaney | The Red Heart | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Hugh MacLennan | Cross-Country | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | R. MacGregor Dawson | Democratic Government in Canada | |
| 1950 | Fiction | Germaine GuĂšvremont | The Outlander (Le Survenant and Marie-Didace, combined in translation) |
| Poetry or Drama | James Wreford Watson | Of Time and the Lover | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | The Saskatchewan | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | W.L. Morton | The Progressive Party in Canada | |
| 1951 | Fiction | Morley Callaghan | The Loved and the Lost |
| Poetry or Drama | Charles Bruce | The Mulgrave Road: Selected Poems of Charles Bruce | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Josephine Phelan | The Ardent Exile: The Life and Times of Thomas D'Arcy McGee | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Frank MacKinnon | The Government of Prince Edward Island | |
| 1952 | Fiction | David Walker | The Pillar |
| Poetry or Drama | E.J. Pratt | Towards the Last Spike: A Verse-Panorama of the Struggle to Build the First Canadian Transcontinental from the Time of the Proposed Terms of Union with British Columbia (1870) to the Hammering of the Last Spike in the Eagle Pass (1885) | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Bruce Hutchison | The Incredible Canadian: A Candid Portrait of Mackenzie King: His Works, His Times, and His Nation | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Donald G. Creighton | John A. Macdonald: The Young Politician | |
| 1953 | Fiction | David Walker | Digby |
| Poetry or Drama | Douglas LePan | The Net and the Sword | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | N.J. Berrill | Sex and the Nature of Things | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | J.M.S. Careless | Canada: A Story of Challenge | |
| 1954 | Fiction | Igor Gouzenko | The Fall of a Titan |
| Poetry or Drama | P.K. Page | The Metal and the Flower | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Hugh MacLennan | Thirty & Three | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | A.R.M. Lower | This Most Famous Stream: The Liberal Democratic Way of Life | |
| 1955 | Fiction | Lionel Shapiro | The Sixth of June |
| Poetry or Drama | Wilfred Watson | Friday's Child | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | N.J. Berrill | Man's Emerging Mind: Man's Progress Through Time-Trees, Ice, Flood, Atoms, and the Universe | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Donald G. Creighton | John A. Macdonald: The Old Chieftain | |
| 1956 | Fiction | Adele Wiseman | The Sacrifice |
| Poetry or Drama | Robert A.D. Ford | A Window on the North | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Pierre Berton | The Mysterious North | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Joseph Lister Rutledge | Century of Conflict: The Struggle Between the French and British in Colonial America | |
| 1957 | Fiction | Gabrielle Roy | Street of Riches (Rue Deschambault) |
| Poetry or Drama | Jay Macpherson | The Boatman and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Bruce Hutchison | Canada: Tomorrow's Giant | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Thomas H. Raddall | The Path of Destiny: Canada from the British Conquest to Home Rule, 1763â1850 | |
| 1958 | Fiction | Colin McDougall | Execution |
| Poetry or Drama | James Reaney | A Suit of Nettles | |
| Nonfiction (creative) | Pierre Berton | The Klondike Fever: The Life and Death of the Last Great Gold Rush | |
| Nonfiction (academic) | Joyce Hemlow | The History of Fanny Burney | |
| 1959 | Fiction | Hugh MacLennan | The Watch That Ends the Night |
| Poetry or Drama | Irving Layton | A Red Carpet for the Sun | |
| 1960 | Fiction | Brian Moore | The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
| Poetry or Drama | Margaret Avison | Winter Sun | |
| Nonfiction | Frank H. Underhill | In Search of Canadian Liberalism | |
| 1961 | Fiction | Malcolm Lowry | Hear Us O Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place |
| Poetry or Drama | Robert Finch | Acis in Oxford and Other Poems | |
| Nonfiction | T.A. Goudge | The Ascent of Life: A Philosophical Study of the Theory of Evolution | |
| 1962 | Fiction | Kildare Dobbs | Running to Paradise |
| Poetry or Drama | James Reaney | Twelve Letters to a Small Town and The Killdeer and Other Plays | |
| Nonfiction | Marshall McLuhan | The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man | |
| 1963 | Fiction | Hugh Garner | Hugh Garner's Best Stories |
| Nonfiction | J.M.S. Careless | Brown of the Globe | |
| 1964 | Fiction | Douglas LePan | The Deserter |
| Poetry or Drama | Raymond Souster | The Colour of the Times: The Collected Poems of Raymond Souster | |
| Nonfiction | Phyllis Grosskurth | John Addington Symonds | |
| 1965 | Poetry or Drama | Alfred Purdy | The Cariboo Horses |
| Nonfiction | James Eayrs | In Defence of Canada: Appeasement and Rearmament (vol. 2) | |
| 1966 | Fiction | Margaret Laurence | A Jest of God |
| Poetry or Drama | Margaret Atwood | The Circle Game | |
| Nonfiction | George Woodcock | The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell | |
| 1967 | Poetry or Drama | Eli Mandel | An Idiot Joy |
| Poetry or Drama | Alden Nowlan | Bread, Wine and Salt | |
| Nonfiction | Norah Story | The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature | |
| 1968 | Fiction | Alice Munro | Dance of the Happy Shades and Other Stories |
| Fiction and Essays | Mordecai Richler | Cocksure (novel) and Hunting Tigers Under Glass: Essays and Reports (essays) | |
| Poetry or Drama | Leonard Cohen (declined) | Selected Poems 1956â68 | |
| 1969 | Fiction | Robert Kroetsch | The Studhorse Man |
| Poetry or Drama | George Bowering | Rocky Mountain Foot: A Lyric, A Memoir and The Gangs of Kosmos | |
| Poetry or Drama | Gwendolyn MacEwen | The Shadow-Maker | |
| 1970 | Fiction | Dave Godfrey | The New Ancestors |
| Poetry or Drama | bpNichol | Still Water | |
| The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid | |||
| Beach Head | |||
| The Cosmic Chef Glee & Perloo Memorial Society Under the Direction of Captain Poetry Presents an Evening of Concrete: Courtesy Oberon Cement Works (editor) | |||
| 1971 | Fiction | Mordecai Richler | St. Urbain's Horseman |
| Poetry or Drama | John Glassco | Selected Poems | |
| Nonfiction | Pierre Berton | The Last Spike: The Great Railway 1881â1885 | |
| 1972 | Fiction | Robertson Davies | The Manticore |
| Poetry or Drama | Dennis Lee | Civil Elegies and Other Poems | |
| Poetry or Drama | John Newlove | Lies | |
| 1973 | Fiction | Rudy Wiebe | The Temptations of Big Bear |
| Poetry or Drama | Miriam Mandel | Lions at Her Face | |
| Nonfiction | Michael Bell | Painters in a New Land: From Annapolis Royal to the Klondike | |
| 1974 | Fiction | Margaret Laurence | The Diviners |
| Poetry or Drama | Ralph Gustafson | Fire on Stone | |
| Nonfiction | Charles Ritchie | The Siren Years: A Canadian Diplomat Abroad, 1937â1945 | |
| 1975 | Fiction | Brian Moore | The Great Victorian Collection |
| Poetry or Drama | Milton Acorn | The Island Means Minago | |
| Nonfiction | Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson | Hallowed Walls: Church Architecture of Upper Canada | |
| 1976 | Fiction | Marian Engel | Bear |
| Poetry or Drama | Joe Rosenblatt | Top Soil | |
| Nonfiction | Carl Berger | The Writing of Canadian History: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing, 1900â1970 | |
| 1977 | Fiction | Timothy Findley | The Wars |
| Poetry or Drama | D.G. Jones | Under the Thunder the Flowers Light Up the Earth | |
| Nonfiction | Frank Scott | Essays on the Constitution: Aspects of Canadian Law and Politics | |
| 1978 | Fiction | Alice Munro | Who Do You Think You Are?: Stories |
| Poetry or Drama | Patrick Lane | Poems, New & Selected | |
| Nonfiction | Roger Caron | Go-Boy!: Memoirs of a Lifetime Behind Bars | |
| 1979 | Fiction | Jack Hodgins | The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne; or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles |
| Poetry or Drama | Michael Ondaatje | There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do: Poems 1963â78 | |
| Nonfiction | Maria Tippett | Emily Carr: A Biography | |
| 1980 | Fiction | George Bowering | Burning Water |
| Poetry or Drama | Stephen Scobie | McAlmon's Chinese Opera | |
| Nonfiction | Jeffrey Simpson | Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration | |
| 1981 | Fiction | Mavis Gallant | Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories |
| Poetry | Frank Scott | The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott | |
| Drama | Sharon Pollock | Blood Relations | |
| Nonfiction | George Calef | Caribou and the Barren-Lands | |
| 1982 | Fiction | Guy Vanderhaeghe | Man Descending: Selected Stories |
| Poetry | Phyllis Webb | Selected Poems: The Vision Tree | |
| Drama | John Gray | Billy Bishop Goes to War | |
| Nonfiction | Christopher Moore | Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town | |
| 1983 | Fiction | Leon Rooke | Shakespeare's Dog |
| Poetry | David Donnell | Settlements | |
| Drama | Anne Chislett | Quiet in the Land | |
| Nonfiction | Jeffery Williams | Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General | |
| 1984 | Fiction | Josef Ć kvoreckĂœ | The Engineer of Human Souls |
| Poetry | Paulette Jiles | Celestial Navigation | |
| Drama | Judith Thompson | White Biting Dog | |
| Nonfiction | Sandra Gwyn | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier | |
| 1985 | Fiction | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
| Poetry | Fred Wah | Waiting for Saskatchewan | |
| Drama | George F. Walker | Criminals in Love | |
| Nonfiction | Ramsay Cook | The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada | |
| 1986 | Fiction | Alice Munro | The Progress of Love |
| Poetry | Al Purdy | The Collected Poems of Al Purdy | |
| Drama | Sharon Pollock | Doc | |
| Nonfiction | Northrop Frye | Northrop Frye on Shakespeare | |
| 1987 | Fiction | M.T. Kelly | A Dream Like Mine |
| Poetry | Gwendolyn MacEwen | Afterworlds | |
| Drama | John Krizanc | Prague | |
| Nonfiction | Michael Ignatieff | The Russian Album | |
| 1988 | Fiction | David Adams Richards | Nights Below Station Street |
| Poetry | Erin Mouré | Furious | |
| Drama | George F. Walker | Nothing Sacred: Based on Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev | |
| Nonfiction | Anne Collins | In the Sleep Room: The Story of the CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada | |
| 1989 | Fiction | Paul Quarrington | Whale Music |
| Poetry | Heather Spears | The Word for Sand | |
| Drama | Judith Thompson | The Other Side of the Dark | |
| Nonfiction | Robert Calder | Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham | |
| 1990 | Fiction | Nino Ricci | Lives of the Saints |
| Poetry | Margaret Avison | No Time | |
| Drama | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) | |
| Nonfiction | Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall | Trudeau and Our Times: The Magnificent Obsession (vol. 1) | |
| 1991 | Fiction | Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey |
| Poetry | Don McKay | Night Field | |
| Drama | Joan MacLeod | Amigo's Blue Guitar | |
| Nonfiction | Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo | Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past | |
| 1992 | Fiction | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
| Poetry | Lorna Crozier | Inventing the Hawk | |
| Drama | John Mighton | Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night | |
| Nonfiction | Maggie Siggins | Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy, and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm | |
| 1993 | Fiction | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
| Poetry | Don Coles | Forests of the Medieval World | |
| Drama | Guillermo Verdecchia | Fronteras Americanas | |
| Nonfiction | Karen Connelly | Touch the Dragon: A Thai Journal | |
| 1994 | Fiction | Rudy Wiebe | A Discovery of Strangers |
| Poetry | Robert Hilles | Cantos from a Small Room | |
| Drama | Morris Panych | The Ends of the Earth | |
| Nonfiction | John A. Livingston | Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication | |
| 1995 | Fiction | Greg Hollingshead | The Roaring Girl |
| Poetry | Anne Szumigalski | Voice | |
| Drama | Jason Sherman | Three in the Back, Two in the Head | |
| Nonfiction | Rosemary Sullivan | Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwan | |
| 1996 | Fiction | Guy Vanderhaeghe | The Englishman's Boy |
| Poetry | E.D. Blodgett | Apostrophes: Woman at Piano | |
| Drama | Colleen Wagner | The Monument | |
| Nonfiction | John Ralston Saul | The Unconscious Civilization | |
| 1997 | Fiction | Jane Urquhart | The Underpainter |
| Poetry | Dionne Brand | Land to Light On | |
| Drama | Ian Ross | fareWel | |
| Nonfiction | Rachel Manley | Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood | |
| 1998 | Fiction | Diane Schoemperlen | Forms of Devotion |
| Poetry | Stephanie Bolster | White Stone: The Alice Poems | |
| Drama | Djanet Sears | Harlem Duet | |
| Nonfiction | David Adams Richards | Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi | |
| 1999 | Fiction | Matt Cohen | Elizabeth and After |
| Poetry | Jan Zwicky | Songs for Relinquishing the Earth | |
| Drama | Michael Healey | The Drawer Boy | |
| Nonfiction | Marq de Villiers | Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource | |
| 2000 | Fiction | Michael Ondaatje | Anil's Ghost |
| Poetry | Don McKay | Another Gravity | |
| Drama | Timothy Findley | Elizabeth Rex | |
| Nonfiction | Nega Mezlekia | Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood | |
| 2001 | Fiction | Richard B. Wright | Clara Callan |
| Poetry | George Elliott Clarke | Execution Poems: The Black Acadian Tragedy of "George & Rue" | |
| Drama | Kent Stetson | The Harps of God | |
| Nonfiction | Thomas Homer-Dixon | The Ingenuity Gap | |
| 2002 | Fiction | Gloria Sawai | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
| Poetry | Roy Miki | Surrender | |
| Drama | Kevin Kerr | Unity (1918) | |
| Nonfiction | Andrew Nikiforuk | Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil | |
| 2003 | Fiction | Douglas Glover | Elle |
| Poetry | Tim Lilburn | Kill-site | |
| Drama | Vern Thiessen | Einstein's Gift | |
| Nonfiction | Margaret MacMillan | Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World | |
| 2004 | Fiction | Miriam Toews | A Complicated Kindness |
| Poetry | Roo Borson | Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida | |
| Drama | Morris Panych | Girl in the Goldfish Bowl | |
| Nonfiction | Roméo Dallaire | Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda | |
| 2005 | Fiction | David Gilmour | A Perfect Night to Go to China |
| Poetry | Anne Compton | Processional | |
| Drama | John Mighton | Half Life | |
| Nonfiction | John Vaillant | The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed | |
| 2006 | Fiction | Peter Behrens | The Law of Dreams |
| Poetry | John Pass | Stumbling in the Bloom | |
| Drama | Daniel MacIvor | I Still Love You | |
| Nonfiction | Ross King | The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism | |
| 2007 | Fiction | Michael Ondaatje | Divisadero |
| Poetry | Don Domanski | All Our Wonder Unavenged | |
| Drama | Colleen Murphy | The December Man (L'Homme de décembre) | |
| Nonfiction | Karolyn Smardz Frost | I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad | |
| 2008 | Fiction | Nino Ricci | The Origin of Species |
| Poetry | Jacob Scheier | More to Keep Us Warm | |
| Drama | Catherine Banks | Bone Cage | |
| Nonfiction | Christie Blatchford | Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army | |
| 2009 | Fiction | Kate Pullinger | The Mistress of Nothing |
| Poetry | David Zieroth | The Fly in Autumn | |
| Drama | Kevin Loring | Where the Blood Mixes | |
| Nonfiction | M.G. Vassanji | A Place Within: Rediscovering India | |
| 2010 | Fiction | Dianne Warren | Cool Water |
| Poetry | Richard Greene | Boxing the Compass | |
| Drama | Robert Chafe | Afterimage | |
| Nonfiction | Allan Casey | Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada | |
| 2011 | Fiction | Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers |
| Poetry | Phil Hall | Killdeer | |
| Drama | Erin Shields | If We Were Birds | |
| Nonfiction | Charles Foran | Mordecai: The Life & Times | |
| 2012 | Fiction | Linda Spalding | The Purchase |
| Poetry | Julie Bruck | Monkey Ranch | |
| Drama | Catherine Banks | It is Solved by Walking | |
| Nonfiction | Ross King | Leonardo and the Last Supper | |
| 2013 | Fiction | Eleanor Catton | The Luminaries |
| Poetry | Katherena Vermette | North End Love Songs | |
| Drama | Nicolas Billon | Fault Lines: Three Plays | |
| Nonfiction | Sandra Djwa | A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page | |
| 2014 | Fiction | Thomas King | The Back of the Turtle |
| Poetry | Arleen Paré | Lake of Two Mountains | |
| Drama | Jordan Tannahill | Age of Minority: Three Solo Plays | |
| Nonfiction | Michael Harris | The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We've Lost in a World of Constant Connection | |
| 2015 | Fiction | Guy Vanderhaeghe | Daddy Lenin and Other Stories |
| Poetry | Robyn Sarah | My Shoes Are Killing Me | |
| Drama | David Yee | carried away on the crest of a wave | |
| Nonfiction | Mark L. Winston | Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive | |
| 2016 | Fiction | Madeleine Thien | Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
| Poetry | Steven Heighton | The Waking Comes Late | |
| Drama | Colleen Murphy | Pig Girl | |
| Nonfiction | Bill Waiser | A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 | |
| 2017 | Fiction | Joel Thomas Hynes | We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night |
| Poetry | Richard Harrison | On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood | |
| Drama | Hiro Kanagawa | Indian Arm | |
| Nonfiction | Graeme Wood | The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State | |
| 2018 | Fiction | Sarah Henstra | The Red Word |
| Poetry | Cecily Nicholson | Wayside Sang | |
| Drama | Jordan Tannahill | Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom | |
| Nonfiction | Darrel J. McLeod | Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age | |
| 2019 | Fiction | Joan Thomas | Five Wives |
| Poetry | Gwen Benaway | Holy Wild | |
| Drama | Amanda Parris | Other Side of the Game | |
| Nonfiction | Don Gillmor | To the River: Losing My Brother | |
| 2020 | Fiction | Michelle Good | Five Little Indians |
| Poetry | Anne Carson | Norma Jeane Baker of Troy | |
| Drama | Kim Senklip Harvey | Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story | |
| Nonfiction | Madhur Anand | This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves | |
| 2021 | Fiction | Norma Dunning | Tainna |
| Poetry | Tolu Oloruntoba | The Junta of Happenstance | |
| Drama | Hannah Moscovitch | Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes | |
| Nonfiction | Sadiqa de Meijer | alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language | |
| 2022 | Fiction | Sheila Heti | Pure Colour |
| Poetry | Annick MacAskill | Shadow Blight | |
| Drama | Dorothy Dittrich | The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key | |
| Nonfiction | Eli Baxter | Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth | |
Winners of the Governor Generalâs Literary Award (French)
Winners of the Governor Generalâs Literary Award (French) are listed in the table. The table is an abbreviated version of the official record maintained by the Canada Council for the Arts. The prize categories have been simplified for purposes of consistency and clarity.
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| year | category** | recipient | title |
|---|---|---|---|
| *The Governor General's Literary Awards were restricted to works written in English from their 1936 inception until 1959, when separate categories were established for works written in French. | |||
| **Children's literature and English-French translation categories have been omitted from this table. | |||
| 1959 | Fiction | AndrĂ© Giroux | MalgrĂ© tout, la joie! (âIn Spite of It All, Joy!â) |
| Nonfiction | FĂ©lix-Antoine Savard | Le Barachois | |
| 1960 | Poetry and Drama | Anne HĂ©bert | PoĂšmes (âPoemsâ) |
| Nonfiction | Paul Toupin | Souvenirs pour demain (âMemories for Tomorrowâ) | |
| 1961 | Fiction | Yves Thériault | Ashini |
| Nonfiction | Jean Le Moyne | Convergences (Convergence: Essays from Quebec) | |
| 1962 | Fiction | Jacques Ferron | Contes du pays incertain (Tales from the Uncertain Country) |
| Poetry and Drama | Jacques Languirand | Les Insolites et les violons de l'automne (âThe Unusual People and the Violins of Autumnâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Gilles Marcotte | Une LittĂ©rature qui se fait: essais critiques sur la littĂ©rature canadienne-française (âA Literature That Makes Itself: Critical Essays on Canadian-French Literatureâ) | |
| 1963 | Poetry and Drama | Gatien Lapointe | Ode au Saint-Laurent: prĂ©cedĂ©e de âJ'appartiens Ă la terreâ (âOde to Saint-Laurent: Preceded by âI Belong to the Earth' â) |
| Nonfiction | Gustave LanctĂŽt | Histoire du Canada (A History of Canada) | |
| 1964 | Fiction | Jean-Paul Pinsonneault | Les Terres sĂšches (âThe Dry Groundâ) |
| Poetry and Drama | Pierre Perrault | Au coeur de la rose: piĂšce en trois actes (âAt the Heart of the Rose: A Play in Three Actsâ) | |
| Nonfiction | RĂ©jean Robidoux | Roger Martin du Gard et la religion (âRoger Martin du Gard and Religionâ) | |
| 1965 | Fiction | GĂ©rard Bessette | L'Incubation (Incubation) |
| Poetry and Drama | Gilles Vigneault | Quand les bateaux s'en vont (âWhen the Boats Go Awayâ) | |
| Nonfiction | AndrĂ© Vachon | Le Temps et l'espace dans l'Ćuvre de Paul Claudel: experience chrĂ©tienne et imagination poĂ©tique (âTime and Space in the Works of Paul Claudel: Christian Experience and Poetic Imaginationâ) | |
| 1966 | Fiction | Claire Martin | La Joue droite (The Right Cheek: An Autobiography) |
| Poetry and Drama | Réjean Ducharme | L'Avalée des avalés (The Swallower Swallowed) | |
| Nonfiction | Marcel Trudel | Le Comptoir, 1604â1627 (âThe Trading-Post, 1604â1627â), vol. 2 of Histoire de la Nouvelle-France (âHistory of New Franceâ) | |
| 1967 | Fiction | Jacques Godbout | Salut Galarneau! (Hail Galarneau!) |
| Poetry and Drama | Françoise Loranger | Encore cinq minutes (âFive More Minutesâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Robert-Lionel SĂ©guin | La Civilisation traditionelle de l'ââHabitantâ aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siĂšcles (âThe Traditional Civilization of 'the Inhabitant' in the 17th and 18th Centuriesâ) | |
| 1968 | Fiction | Hubert Aquin (declined) | Trou de mémoire (Blackout) |
| Fiction | Marie-Claire Blais | Manuscrits de Pauline Archange (The Manuscripts of Pauline Archange) | |
| Nonfiction | Fernand Dumont | Le Lieu de l'homme: la culture comme distance et mĂ©moire (âThe Place of Man: Culture as Distance and Memoryâ) | |
| 1969 | Fiction | Louise Maheux-Forcier | Une ForĂȘt pour ZoĂ© (A Forest for Zoe) |
| Poetry and Drama | Jean-Guy Pilon | Comme eau retenue: poĂšmes, 1954â1963 (âLike Retained Water: Poems, 1954â1963â) | |
| Nonfiction | Michel Brunet | Les Canadiens aprĂšs la conquĂȘte, 1759â1775: de la rĂ©volution canadienne Ă la rĂ©volution amĂ©ricaine (âThe Canadians After the Conquest, 1759â1775: From the Canadian Revolution to the American Revolutionâ) | |
| 1970 | Fiction | Monique Bosco | La Femme de Loth (Lot's Wife) |
| Poetry and Drama | Jacques Brault | Quand nous serons heureux (âWhen We Will Be Happyâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Fernand Ouellette (declined) | Les Actes retrouvĂ©s: regards d'un poĂšte (âThe Recovered Acts: Looks of a Poetâ) | |
| 1971 | Fiction | GĂ©rard Bessette | Le Cycle (The Cycle) |
| Poetry and Drama | Paul-Marie Lapointe | Le RĂ©el absolu: poĂšmes, 1948â1965 (âThe Absolute Reality: Poems, 1948â1965â) | |
| Nonfiction | GĂ©rald Fortin | La Fin d'un rĂšgne (âThe End of a Ruleâ) | |
| 1972 | Fiction | Antonine Maillet | Don l'Orignal (The Tale of Don l'Orignal) |
| Poetry and Drama | Gilles HĂ©nault | Signaux pour les voyants: poĂšmes 1941â1962 (âSignals for the Seers: Poems 1941â1962â) | |
| Nonfiction | Jean Hamelin and Yves Roby | Histoire Ă©conomique du QuĂ©bec 1851â1896 (âEconomic History of Quebec 1851â1896â) | |
| 1973 | Fiction | RĂ©jean Ducharme | L'Hiver de force (Wild to Mild: A Tale) |
| Poetry and Drama | Roland GiguĂšre (declined) | La Main au feu: 1949â1968 (âThe Hand on Fire: 1949â1968â) | |
| Nonfiction | Albert Faucher | QuĂ©bec en AmĂ©rique au XIXe siĂšcle: essai sur les caractĂšres Ă©conomiques de la Laurentie (âQuebec in America During the 19th Century: Essay on the Economic Characteristics of the Laurentieâ) | |
| 1974 | Fiction | Victor Lévy Beaulieu | Don Quichotte de la démanche (Don Quixote in Nighttown) |
| Poetry and Drama | Nicole Brossard | MĂ©canique jongleuse (Daydream Mechanics) | |
| Nonfiction | Louise DechĂȘne | Habitants et marchands de MontrĂ©al au XVIIe siĂšcle (Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal) | |
| 1975 | Fiction | Anne HĂ©bert | Les Enfants du sabbat (Children of the Black Sabbath) |
| Poetry and Drama | Pierre Perrault | Chouennes: poĂšmes, 1961â1971 | |
| Nonfiction | Louis Edmond Hamelin | Nordicité canadienne (Canadian Nordicity: It's Your North, Too) | |
| 1976 | Fiction | André Major | Les Rescapés (Man on the Run) |
| Poetry and Drama | Alphonse PichĂ© | PoĂšmes 1946â1968 (âPoems 1946â1968â) | |
| Nonfiction | Fernand Ouellet | Les Bas-Canada 1791â1840: changements structuraux et crise (Lower Canada 1791â1840: Social Change and Nationalism) | |
| 1977 | Fiction | Gabrielle Roy | Ces enfants de ma vie (Children of My Heart) |
| Poetry and Drama | Michel Garneau (declined) | Les CĂ©lĂ©brations and Adidou Adidouce (âThe Celebrationsâ and âAdidou Adidouceâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Denis MoniĂšre | Le DĂ©veloppement des idĂ©ologies au QuĂ©bec: des origines Ă nos jours (âThe Development of Ideologies of Quebec: Origins to Our Dayâ) | |
| 1978 | Fiction | Jacques Poulin | Les Grandes Marées (Spring Tides) |
| Poetry and Drama | Gilbert Langevin | Mon refuge est un volcan (âMy Refuge Is a Volcanoâ) | |
| Nonfiction | François Marc-Gagnon | Paul-Ămile Borduas, 1905â1960: biographie critique et analyse de l'Ćuvre (âPaul-Ămile Borduas, 1905â1960: Critical Biography and Analysis of Worksâ) | |
| 1979 | Fiction | Marie-Claire Blais | Le Sourd dans la ville (Deaf to the City) |
| Poetry and Drama | Robert Mélançon | Peinture aveugle (Blind Painting) | |
| Nonfiction | Dominique Clift and Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos | Le Fait anglais au Québec (The English Fact in Quebec) | |
| 1980 | Fiction | Pierre Turgeon | La PremiĂšre Personne (The First Person) |
| Poetry and Drama | Michel van Schendel | De l'oeil et de l'Ă©coute: poĂšmes, 1956â1976 (âOn the Eye and on Listening: Poems, 1956â1976â) | |
| Nonfiction | Maurice Champagne-Gilbert | La Famille et l'homme Ă dĂ©livrer du pouvoir (âThe Family and the Man to Deliver Powerâ) | |
| 1981 | Fiction | Denys Chabot | La Province lunaire (Moon Country) |
| Poetry | Michel Beaulieu | Visages (Countenances) | |
| Drama | Marie Laberge | C'Ă©tait avant la guerre Ă l'anse Ă Gilles (âIt Was Before the War of the Bay at Gillesâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska | L'ĂchappĂ©e des discours de l'oeil (âThe Break of Discourses on the Eyeâ) | |
| 1982 | Fiction | Roger Fournier | Le Cercle des arĂšnes (âThe Circle of Arenasâ) |
| Poetry | Michel Savard | Forages (âDrillingâ) | |
| Drama | RĂ©jean Ducharme | Ha ha!... (Ha! Ha!) | |
| Nonfiction | Maurice Lagueux | Le Marxisme des annĂ©es soixante: une saison dans l'histoire de la pensĂ©e critique (âMarxism of the 1960s: A Season in the History of Critical Thoughtâ) | |
| 1983 | Fiction | Suzanne Jacob | Laura Laur |
| Poetry | Suzanne Paradis | Un GoĂ»t de sel (âThe Taste of Saltâ) | |
| Drama | René Gingras | Syncope (Breaks) | |
| Nonfiction | Maurice Cusson | Le ContrĂŽle social du crime (The Social Control of Crime) | |
| 1984 | Fiction | Jacques Brault | Agonie (Death Watch) |
| Poetry | Nicole Brossard | Double Impression: PoĂšmes et textes 1967â1984 (âDouble Impression: Poems and Texts 1967â1984â) | |
| Drama | RenĂ©-Daniel Dubois | Ne blĂąmez jamais les BĂ©douins (âNever Blame the Bedouinsâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Jean Hamelin and Nicole Gagnon | Histoire du Catholicisme quĂ©bĂ©cois: le XXe siĂšcle (âHistory of QuĂ©bĂ©cois Catholicism: The 20th Centuryâ) | |
| 1985 | Fiction | Fernand Ouellette | Lucie; ou, un midi en novembre (âLucie; or, Noon in Novemberâ) |
| Poetry | AndrĂ© Roy | Action Writing: poĂ©sie et prose, 1973â1985 (âAction Writing: Poetry and Prose, 1973â1985â) | |
| Drama | Maryse Pelletier | Duo pour voix obstinées (Duo for Obstinate Voices) | |
| Nonfiction | François Ricard | La LittĂ©rature contre elle-mĂȘme (âLiterature Against Itselfâ) | |
| 1986 | Fiction | Yvon Rivard | Les Silences du corbeau (âThe Silences of the Crowâ) |
| Poetry | CĂ©cile Cloutier | L'ĂcoutĂ© (âThe Heardâ) | |
| Drama | Anne Legault | La Visite des sauvages; ou, l'Ăźle en forme de tĂȘte de vache (âThe Visit of the Savages; or, The Island in the Form of a Cow's Headâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Régine Robin | Le Réalisme socialiste: une esthétique impossible (Socialist Realism: An Impossible Aesthetic) | |
| 1987 | Fiction | Gilles Archambault | L'ObsĂ©dante obĂšse et autres agressions (âThe Obsessive Obese and Other Attacksâ) |
| Poetry | Fernand Ouellette | Les Heures (âThe Hoursâ) | |
| Drama | Jeanne-Mance Delisle | Un Oiseau vivant dans la gueule (A Live Bird in Its Jaws) | |
| Nonfiction | Jean Larose | La Petite Noirceur (âThe Little Darknessâ) | |
| 1988 | Fiction | Jacques Folch-Ribas | Le Silence ou le parfait bonheur (âThe Silence or the Perfect Happinessâ) |
| Poetry | Marcel Labine | Papiers d'Ă©pidĂ©mie (âEpidemic Papersâ) | |
| Drama | Jean-Marc DalpĂ© | Le Chien (âThe Dogâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Patricia Smart | Ăcrire dans la maison du pĂšre: l'Ă©mergence du fĂ©minin dans la tradition littĂ©raire du QuĂ©bec (Writing in the Father's House: The Emergence of the Feminine in the Quebec Literary Tradition) | |
| 1989 | Fiction | Louis Hamelin | La Rage (âThe Furyâ) |
| Poetry | Pierre DesRuisseaux | MonĂšme (âMorphemeâ) | |
| Drama | Michel Garneau | Mademoiselle Rouge (Miss Red and the Wolves) | |
| Nonfiction | Lise Noël | L'Intolérance: une problématique générale (Intolerance: A General Survey) | |
| 1990 | Fiction | GĂ©rald Tougas | La Mauvaise Foi (âThe Bad Faithâ) |
| Poetry | Jean-Paul Daoust | Les Cendres bleues (âThe Blue Ashesâ) | |
| Drama | Jovette Marchessault | Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr (The Magnificent Voyage of Emily Carr) | |
| Nonfiction | Jean-François LisĂ©e | Dans l'Ćil de l'aigle: Washington face au Quebec (In the Eye of the Eagle) | |
| 1991 | Fiction | AndrĂ© Brochu | La Croix du nord (âThe Northern Crossâ) |
| Poetry | Madeleine Gagnon | Chant pour un Québec lointain (Song for a Far Québec) | |
| Drama | Gilbert Dupuis | Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague prÚs du métro Berri (Hanging Around the Berri Station with My Uncle Marcel) | |
| Nonfiction | Bernard Arcand | Le Jaguar et le tamanoir: anthropologie de la pornographie (The Jaguar and the Anteater: Pornography Degree Zero) | |
| 1992 | Fiction | Anne Hébert | L'Enfant chargé de songes (Burden of Dreams) |
| Poetry | Gilles Cyr | AndromĂšde attendra (âAndromeda Will Waitâ) | |
| Drama | Louis-Dominique Lavigne | Les Petits Orteils (Tiny Toes) | |
| Nonfiction | Pierre Turgeon | La Radissonie: le pays de la Baie James (âThe Radisonnie: The James Bay Regionâ) | |
| 1993 | Fiction | Nancy Huston | Cantique des plaines (Plainsong) |
| Poetry | Denise Desautels | Le Saut de l'ange: autour de quelques objets de Martha Townsend (âThe Jump of the Angel: On Some of Martha Townsend's Objectsâ) | |
| Drama | Daniel Danis | Celle-lĂ (âThat Oneâ) | |
| Nonfiction | François Paré | Les Littératures de l'exiguïté (Exiguity: Reflections on the Margins of Literature) | |
| 1994 | Fiction | Robert Lalonde | Le Petit Aigle Ă tĂȘte blanche (âThe Little White-Headed Eagleâ) |
| Poetry | Fulvio Caccia | Aknos (Aknos and Other Poems) | |
| Drama | Michel Ouellette | French Town | |
| Nonfiction | Chantal Saint-Jarre | Du sida: l'anticipation imaginaire de la mort et sa mise en discours (âOn AIDS: The Imaginary Anticipation of Death and Its Discussionâ) | |
| 1995 | Fiction | Nicole Houde | Les Oiseaux de Saint-John Perse (âSaint-John Perse's Birdsâ) |
| Poetry | Ămile Martel | Pour orchestre et poĂšte seul (For Orchestra and Solo Poet) | |
| Drama | Carole Fréchette | Les Quatre Morts de Marie (The Four Lives of Marie) | |
| Nonfiction | Yvan Lamonde | Louis-Antoine Dessaulles, 1818â1895: un seigneur libĂ©ral et anticlĂ©rical (âLouis-Antoine Dessaulles, 1818â1895: A Liberal and Anticlerical Lordâ) | |
| 1996 | Fiction | Marie-Claire Blais | Soifs (These Festive Nights) |
| Poetry | Serge Patrice Thibodeau | Le Quatuor de l'errance suivi de La TraversĂ©e du dĂ©sert (âThe Wandering Quartet Followed by The Crossing of the Desertâ) | |
| Drama | Normand Chaurette | Le Passage de l'Indiana (âPassage to Indianaâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Michel Freitag | Le Naufrage de l'universitĂ©, et autres essais d'Ă©pistĂ©mologie politique (âThe Collapse of the University, and Other Essays on Political Epistemologyâ) | |
| 1997 | Fiction | Aude | Cet imperceptible mouvement (The Indiscernible Movement) |
| Poetry | Pierre Nepveu | Romans-fleuves (âStream Novelsâ) | |
| Drama | Yvan Bienvenue | Dits et inĂ©dits (âThings Said/Things Hitherto Unheard Ofâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Roland Viau | Enfants du nĂ©ant et mangeurs d'Ăąmes: guerre, culture et sociĂ©tĂ© en Iroquoisie ancienne (âChildren of Nothingness and Eaters of Souls: War, Culture, and Society in the Ancient Iroquoisâ) | |
| 1998 | Fiction | Christiane Frenette | La Terre ferme (Terra Firma) |
| Poetry | Suzanne Jacob | La Part de feu prĂ©cĂ©dĂ© de Le Deuil de la rancune (âThe Piece of Fire, Preceded by The Mourning of Resentmentâ) | |
| Drama | François Archambault | 15 secondes (15 Seconds) | |
| Nonfiction | Pierre Nepveu | IntĂ©rieurs du Nouveau Monde: essais sur les littĂ©ratures du QuĂ©bec et des AmĂ©riques (âThe Inside of the New World: Essays on the Literature of Quebec and the Americasâ) | |
| 1999 | Fiction | Lise Tremblay | La Danse juive (Mile End) |
| Poetry | HermĂ©nĂ©gilde Chiasson | Conversations (âConversationsâ) | |
| Drama | Jean-Marc DalpĂ© | Il n'y a que l'amour: huit piĂšces en un acte, trois contes urbains, une confĂ©rence et un texte poĂ©tique pour une voix (âThere Is Nothing But Love: Eight Plays in One Act, Three Urban Legends, One Meeting, and One Poetic Text for One Voiceâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Pierre Perrault | Le Mal du nord (âThe Evil of the Northâ) | |
| 2000 | Fiction | Jean-Marc Dalpé | Un Vent se lÚve qui éparpille (Scattered in a Rising Wind) |
| Poetry | Normand de Bellefeuille | La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien (âThe Walk of the Blind Man Without His Dogâ) | |
| Drama | Wajdi Mouawad | Littoral (Tideline) | |
| Nonfiction | Gérard Bouchard | GenÚse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde: essai d'histoire comparée (The Making of the Nations and Cultures of the New World: An Essay in Comparative History) | |
| 2001 | Fiction | AndrĂ©e A. Michaud | Le Ravissement (âThe Raptureâ) |
| Poetry | Paul Chanel Malenfant | Des ombres portées (If This Were Death) | |
| Drama | Normand Chaurette | Le Petit Köchel (The Concise Köchel) | |
| Nonfiction | Renée Dupuis | Quel Canada pour les autochtones?: la fin de l'exclusion (Justice for Canada's Aboriginal Peoples) | |
| 2002 | Fiction | Monique LaRue | La Gloire de Cassiodore (âThe Glory of Cassiodoreâ) |
| Poetry | Robert Dickson | Humains paysages en temps de paix relative (âHuman Landscapes in Times of Relative Peaceâ) | |
| Drama | Daniel Danis | Le Langue-Ă -langue des chiens de roche (In the Eyes of Stone Dogs) | |
| Nonfiction | Judith Lavoie | Mark Twain et la parole noire (âMark Twain and Black Speechâ) | |
| 2003 | Fiction | Ălise Turcotte | La Maison Ă©trangĂšre (The Alien House) |
| Poetry | Pierre Nepveu | Lignes aériennes (Mirabel) | |
| Drama | Jean-Rock Gaudreault | Deux pas vers les Ă©toiles (Two Steps from the Stars) | |
| Nonfiction | Thierry Hentsch | Raconter et mourir: aux sources narratives de l'imaginaire occidental (Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition) | |
| 2004 | Fiction | Pascale Quiviger | Le Cercle parfait (The Perfect Circle) |
| Poetry | AndrĂ© Brochu | Les Jours Ă vif (âThe Lively Daysâ) | |
| Drama | Emma Haché | L'Intimité (Intimacy) | |
| Nonfiction | Jean-Jacques Simard | La RĂ©duction: l'autochtone inventĂ© et les AmĂ©rindiens d'aujourd'hui (âThe Reduction: Invented Natives and the Native Americans of Todayâ) | |
| 2005 | Fiction | Aki Shimazaki | Hotaru (âFireflyâ in Japanese) |
| Poetry | Jean-Marc Desgent | VingtiĂšmes siĂšcles (Twentieth Centuries) | |
| Drama | GeneviĂšve Billette | Le Pays des genoux (The Land of Knees) | |
| Nonfiction | Michel Bock | Quand la nation dĂ©bordait les frontiĂšres: les minoritĂ©s françaises dans la pensĂ©e de Lionel Groulx (âWhen the Nation Burst the Borders: Lionel Groulx's Thoughts on French Minoritiesâ) | |
| 2006 | Fiction | AndrĂ©e Laberge | La RiviĂšre du loup (âThe River of Wolvesâ) |
| Poetry | HĂ©lĂšne Dorion | Ravir, les lieux (Seizing: Places) | |
| Drama | Ăvelyne de la CheneliĂšre | DĂ©sordre public (âPublic Disorderâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Pierre Ouellet | Ă force de voir: histoire de regards (âBy Dint of Looking: A Story of Looksâ) | |
| 2007 | Fiction | Sylvain Trudel | La Mer de la tranquillitĂ© (âThe Sea of Tranquilityâ) |
| Poetry | Serge Patrice Thibodeau | Seul on est (One) | |
| Drama | Daniel Danis | Le Chant du dire-dire (Song of the Say-Sayer) | |
| Nonfiction | Annette Hayward | La Querelle du rĂ©gionalisme au QuĂ©bec, 1904â1931: vers l'autonomisation de la littĂ©rature quĂ©bĂ©coise (âThe Quarrel of Regionalism in Quebec, 1904â1931: Toward the Autonomy of Quebecois Literatureâ) | |
| 2008 | Fiction | Marie-Claire Blais | Naissance de Rebecca Ă l'Ăšre des tourments (Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom) |
| Poetry | Michel Pleau | La Lenteur du monde (Eternity Taking Its Time) | |
| Drama | Jennifer Tremblay | La Liste (The List) | |
| Nonfiction | Pierre Ouellet | Hors-temps: poĂ©tique de la posthistoire (âTime-Out: The Poetic in Post-Historyâ) | |
| 2009 | Fiction | Julie Mazzieri | Le Discours sur la tombe de l'idiot (âDiscourse on the Tomb of the Idiotâ) |
| Poetry | HĂ©lĂšne Monette | ThĂ©rĂšse pour joie et orchestre (âTheresa for Joy and Orchestraâ) | |
| Drama | Suzanne Lebeau | Le Bruit des os qui craquent (âThe Sound of Bones That Splitâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Nicole V. Champeau | Pointe maligne: l'infiniment oubliĂ©e (âClever Point: The Infinitely Forgottenâ) | |
| 2010 | Fiction | Kim ThĂșy | Ru (âLullabyâ in Vietnamese; "Brook" in archaic French) |
| Poetry | Danielle Fournier | EffleurĂ©s de lumiĂšre (âTouches of Lightâ) | |
| Drama | David Paquet | Porc-Ă©pic (âPorcupineâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Michel Lavoie | C'est ma seigneurie que je rĂ©clame: la lutte des Hurons de Lorette pour la seigneurie de Sillery, 1650â1900 (âIt's My Domain That I Demand: The Fight of the Hurons of Lorette for the Domain of Sillery, 1650â1900â) | |
| 2011 | Fiction | Perrine Leblanc | L'Homme blanc (âThe White Manâ) |
| Poetry | Louise DuprĂ© | Plus haut que les flammes (âHigher Than the Flamesâ) | |
| Drama | Normand Chaurette | Ce qui meurt en dernier (âThose Who Die Lastâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Georges Leroux | Wanderer: essai sur le voyage d'hiver de Franz Schubert (âWanderer: Essay on the Winter Travel of Franz Schubertâ) | |
| 2012 | Fiction | France Daigle | Pour sûr (For Sure) |
| Poetry | Maude Smith Gagnon | Un drap. Une place. (âA Flag. A Place.â) | |
| Drama | GeneviĂšve Billette | Contre le temps (âAgainst Timeâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Normand Chaurette | Comment tuer Shakespeare (âHow to Kill Shakespeareâ) | |
| 2013 | Fiction | StĂ©phanie Pelletier | Quand les guĂȘpes se taisent ("When the Wasps Are Silent") |
| Poetry | RenĂ© Lapierre | Pour les dĂ©sespĂ©rĂ©s seulement (âOnly for the Desperateâ) | |
| Drama | Fanny Britt | Bienveillance (âBenevolenceâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Yvon Rivard | Aimer, enseigner (âLove, Teachâ) | |
| 2014 | Fiction | AndrĂ©e A. Michaud | BondrĂ©e (âBoundaryâ) |
| Poetry | JosĂ© Acquelin | Anarchie de la lumiĂšre (âAnarchy of Lightâ) | |
| Drama | Carole Fréchette | Small Talk | |
| Nonfiction | Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois | Tenir tĂȘte (In Defiance) | |
| 2015 | Fiction | Nicolas Dickner | Six degrĂ©s de libertĂ© (âSix Degrees of Freedomâ) |
| Poetry | JoĂ«l Pourbaix | Le Mal du pays est un art oubliĂ© (âHomesickness is a Lost Artâ) | |
| Drama | Fabien Cloutier | Pour rĂ©ussir un poulet (âTo Succeed a Chickenâ) | |
| Nonfiction | Jean-Philippe Warren | HonorĂ© Beaugrand: la plume et l'Ă©pĂ©e (1848â1906) (âHonorĂ© Beaugrand: The Pen and the Sword [1848â1906]â) | |
| 2016 | Fiction | Dominique Fortier | Au péril de la mer (The Island of Books) |
| Poetry | Normand de Bellefeuille | Le PoĂšme est une maison de bord de mer ("The Poem Is a House on the Seashore") | |
| Drama | Wajdi Mouawad | Inflammation du verbe vivre ("Inflammation of the Verb 'to Live' ") | |
| Nonfiction | Roland Viau | Amerindia: essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone ("Amerindia: Essays on Aboriginal Ethnohistory") | |
| 2017 | Fiction | Christian Guay-Poliquin | Le Poids de la neige (The Weight of the Snow) |
| Poetry | Louise Dupré | La Main hantée ("The Hated Hand") | |
| Drama | SĂ©bastien David | Dimanche napalm ("Sunday Napalm") | |
| Nonfiction | Serge Bouchard | Les Yeux tristes de mon camion ("The Sad Eyes of My Truck") | |
| 2018 | Fiction | Karoline Georges | De synthĂšse ("Synthesis") |
| Poetry | Michaël Trahan | La Raison des fleurs ("The Reason of the Flowers") | |
| Drama | Anne-Marie Olivier | Venir au monde ("Coming to the World") | |
| Nonfiction | Frédérick Lavoie | Avant l'aprÚs: voyages à Cuba avec George Orwell ("Before the After: Travels to Cuba with George Orwell") | |
| 2019 | Fiction | CĂ©line Huyghebaert | Le Drap blanc ("The White Sheet") |
| Poetry | Anne-Marie Desmeules | Le Tendon et l'os ("Tendon and Bone") | |
| Drama | Mishka Lavigne | Havre ("Haven") | |
| Nonfiction | Anne-Marie Voisard | Le Droit du plus fort: nos dommages, leurs intĂ©rĂȘts ("The Right of the Strongest: Our Damages, Their Interests") | |
| 2020 | Fiction | Sophie LĂ©tourneau | Chasse Ă l'homme ("Manhunt") |
| Poetry | Martine Audet | La Société des cendres suivi de Des lames entiÚres ("The Ash Society Followed by Whole Blades") | |
| Drama | Martin Bellemare | CĆur minĂ©ral ("Mineral Heart") | |
| Nonfiction | Frédérique Bernier | Hantises: carnet de Frida Burns sur quelques morceaux de vie et de littérature ("Hauntings: Frida Burns' Notebook on Some Pieces of Life and Literature") | |
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica This article was most recently revised and updated by J.E. Luebering.