Books

Governor General's Literary Awards (awards)

This award was given to 202 books.


  1. Ten Birds

    by Cybele Young

    Year: 2011
    Category: Children's Illustration
  2. If We Were Birds

    by Erin Shields

    Year: 2011
    Category: Drama
  3. The Sisters Brothers

    by Patrick deWitt

    Year: 2011
    Category: Fiction
  4. Mordecai : the life & times

    by Charles Foran

    Year: 2011
    Category: Non-fiction
  5. Killdeer

    by Phil Hall

    Year: 2011
    Category: Poetry
  6. Partita for Glenn Gould: An Inquiry into the Nature of Genius

    by Georges LeRoux

    Year: 2011
    Category: Translation
  7. Cats' Night Out

    by Caroline Stutson

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Literature - Illustration
  8. Fishtailing

    by Wendy Phillips

    Year: 2010
    Category: Children's Literature - Text
  9. Afterimage

    by Robert Chafe

    Year: 2010
    Category: Drama
  10. Cool Water

    by Dianne Warren

    Year: 2010
    Category: Fiction
  11. Lakeland: Ballad of a Freshwater Country

    by Allan Casey

    Year: 2010
    Category: Non-fiction
  12. Circus

    by Michael Harris

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  13. Boxing the compass

    by Richard Greene

    Year: 2010
    Category: Poetry
  14. The Breakwater House

    by Pascale Quiviger

    Year: 2010
    Category: Translation - French to English
    Finalist
  15. High-Wire Summer

    by Louis Dupré

    Year: 2010
    Category: Translation - French to English
    Finalist
  16. The Blue Notebook

    by Michel Tremblay

    Year: 2010
    Category: Translation - French to English
    Finalist
  17. On the Proper Use of Stars

    by Dominique Fortier

    Year: 2010
    Category: Translation - French to English
    Finalist
  18. Forests

    by Wajdi Mouawad

    Year: 2010
    Category: Translation - French to English
  19. The Uninvited

    by Tim Wynne-Jones

    Year: 2009
    Category: Children's Literature (text)
    Finalist
  20. The Mistress of Nothing

    by Kate Pullinger

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
  21. Galore

    by Michael Crummey

    Year: 2009
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  22. Divisadero

    by Michael Ondaatje

    Year: 2007
    Category: Fiction
  23. Matt Cruse: Book 1

    Airborn

    by Kenneth Oppel

    Year: 2004
    Category: Children's Literature (English language)
  24. J'ai Serré la Main du Diable

    La Faillite de L'Humanite au Rwanda

    by Roméo Dallaire

    Year: 2004
    Category: Nonfiction
  25. Shake Hands with the Devil

    The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda

    by Romeo Dallaire

    Year: 2004
    Category: Nonfiction
  26. The Song Within My Heart

    by David Bouchard

    Year: 2003
    Category: Children's Literature (Illustration)
  27. Stitches

    by Glen Huser

    Year: 2003
    Category: Children's Literature (Text)
  28. Prok (Scirocco Drama)

    by Brian Drader

    Year: 2003
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  29. The Last Romantics

    by Michael Lewis MacLennan

    Year: 2003
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  30. Burning Vision

    by Marie Humber Clements

    Year: 2003
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  31. Rice boy

    by Sunil Kuruvilla

    Year: 2003
    Category: Drama
    Finalist
  32. Einstein's Gift

    by Vern Thiessen

    Year: 2003
    Category: Drama
  33. Elle

    A Novel

    by Douglas H. Glover

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
  34. MaddAddam Trilogy: Book 1

    Oryx and Crake

    by Margaret Atwood

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  35. Garbo Laughs

    by Elizabeth Hay

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  36. Ten Thousand Lovers

    by Edeet Ravel

    Year: 2003
    Category: Fiction
    Finalist
  37. Paris 1919

    Six Months That Changed the World

    by Margaret MacMillan

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
  38. A Keen Soldier

    The Execution of Second War Private Harold Pringle

    by Andrew Clark

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  39. While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World

    by Andrew Cohen

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  40. Missing Sarah

    A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister

    by Maggie De Vries

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  41. Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling

    by Ross King

    Year: 2003
    Category: Nonfiction
    Finalist
  42. The Witness Ghost

    by Tim Bowling

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  43. Nothing Fell Today but Rain

    by Evan Jones

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  44. My Fathers Cup

    by Tom Wayman

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  45. Loop

    Poems

    by Anne Simpson

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
    Finalist
  46. Kill-site

    by Tim Lilburn

    Year: 2003
    Category: Poetry
  47. Alphabeasts

    by Wallace Edwards

    Year: 2002
    Category: Children's Literature (Illustration)
  48. Dragonfly Kites

    by Tomson Highway, Brian Deines

    Year: 2002
    Category: Children's Literature (Illustration)
    Finalist

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