The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,"Miriam Toews, Rawi Hage in running for $25,000 Governor General’s fiction prize". Toronto Star, October 3, 2018. and the winners were announced on October 30.
English CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Sarah Henstra, The Red Word"Book about campus rape and an Indigenous memoir win $25,000 Governor General’s Literary Award". Toronto Star, October 30.Paige Cooper, Zolitude Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society Miriam Toews, Women Talking Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed Non-fiction Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of AgeCarys Cragg, Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Aida Edemariam, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung, Homes: A Refugee Story Poetry Cecily Nicholson, Wayside SangBilly-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk Joshua Mensch, Because: A Lyric Memoir Jason Stefanik, Night Became Years Drama Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in SodomKeith Barker, This Is How We Got Here Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja, Gertrude and Alice Anosh Irani, The Men in White Erin Shields, Paradise Lost Children's literature Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her MonsterChristopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie Janice Lynn Mather, Learning to Breathe Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut, Winnie's Great War Heather Smith, Ebb & Flow Children's illustration Jillian Tamaki, They Say BlueThe Fan Brothers, Ocean Meets Sky Shauntay Grant and Eva Campbell, Africville Wab Kinew and Joe Morse, Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes Werner Zimmermann, At the Pond French to English translation Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (Edem Awumey, Explication de la nuit)Vivian Felsen, Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu) Aleshia Jensen, Explosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination (Mathieu Poulin, Des explosions) Peter McCambridge, Songs for the Cold of Heart (Éric Dupont, La fiancée américaine) Rhonda Mullins, Little Beast (Julie Demers, Barbe)
French CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Karoline Georges, De synthèse"Zoom sur les prix du Gouverneur général 2018", Le Devoir, October 30, 2018.Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse Maxime Raymond Bock, Les noyades secondaires Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish Olivier Sylvestre, Noms fictifs Non-fiction Frédérick Lavoie, Avant l’après : voyages à Cuba avec George OrwellPierre Anctil, Histoire des juifs du Québec Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren, Le piège de la liberté : les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux Gabrielle Giasson-Dulude, Les chants du mime : en compagnie d’Étienne Decroux Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Mégantic Poetry Michaël Trahan, La raison des fleursDaria Colonna, Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle Roxane Desjardins, Le revers Catherine Lalonde, La dévoration des fées France Théoret, Cruauté du jeu Drama Anne-Marie Olivier, Venir au mondeChristine Beaulieu, J'aime Hydro Steve Gagnon, La montagne blanche Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Invisibles Michel Tremblay, Enfant insignifiant! Children's literature Mario Brassard, Ferdinand F., 81 ans, chenilleJonathan Bécotte, Maman veut partir Jocelyn Boisvert, Un dernier songe avant le grand sommeil Camille Bouchard, 13000 ans et des poussières Brigitte Vaillancourt, Les marées Children's illustration Marianne Dubuc, Le chemin de la montagneMarianne Ferrer and India Desjardins, Une histoire de cancer qui finit bien Gabriella Gendreau and Nahid Kazemi, Les mots d'Eunice Jacques Goldstyn, Jules et Jim : frères d’armes Nicole Testa and Annie Boulanger, Lili Macaroni : je suis comme je suis! English to French translation Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le monde selon Barney (Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version)Éric Fontaine, Sweetland (Michael Crummey, Sweetland) Daniel Grenier and William S. Messier, De l’utilité de l’ennui : textes de balle (Andrew Forbes, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays) Laurence Gough, Naissances (Kate Cayley, How You Were Born) Catherine Leroux, Le saint patron des merveilles (Mark Frutkin, Fabrizio's Return)
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