2013 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2,[1] and the winners were announced on November 13.[2] Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.[1]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Sandra Djwa, A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
  • Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
  • Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
  • Allen Smutylo, The Memory of Water
  • Priscilla Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
Poetry Blue ribbon Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs
Drama Blue ribbon Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays
Children's literature Blue ribbon Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
  • Beverley Brenna, The White Bicycle
  • Shane Peacock, Becoming Holmes
  • Jean E. Pendziwol, Once Upon a Northern Light
  • Valerie Sherrard, Counting Back from Nine
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Matt James, Northwest Passage
French to English translation Blue ribbon Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs)
  • Robert Majzels, For Sure (France Daigle, Pour sûr)
  • Rhonda Mullins, And the Birds Rained Down (Jocelyne Saucier, Il pleuvait des oiseaux)
  • George Tombs, Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage (Marcel Trudel, Deux siècles d’esclavage au Québec)
  • Luise von Flotow, The Stalinist's Wife (France Théoret, La femme du stalinien)

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent
  • Sergio Kokis, Culs-de-sac
  • Roger Magini, Ilitch, mort ou vif
  • Marc Séguin, Hollywood
  • Gérald Tougas, Le deuxième train de la nuit
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Yvon Rivard, Aimer, enseigner
  • Alain Deneault, Gouvernance: le management totalitaire
  • Jean-Jacques Pelletier, La fabrique de l’extrême : les pratiques ordinaires de l’excès
  • Dominique Perron, L’Alberta autophage : identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l’Ouest canadien
  • Joseph Yvon Thériault, Évangéline : contes d’Amérique
Poetry Blue ribbon René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement
  • Mario Brassard, Le livre clarière
  • Marie-Andrée Gill, Béante
  • Diane Régimbald, L'insensée rayonne
  • Rodney Saint-Éloi, Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre
Drama Blue ribbon Fanny Britt, Bienveillance
  • Michel Marc Bouchard, Christine, la reine-garçon
  • Olivier Choinière, Nom de domaine
  • Véronique Côté, Tout ce qui tombe
  • Érika Tremblay-Roy, Petite vérité inventée
Children's literature Blue ribbon Geneviève Mativat, À l'ombre de la grande maison
  • Camille Bouchard, D'or et de poussière
  • Fanny Britt, Jane, le renard et moi
  • Emmanuelle Caron, Gladys et Vova
  • Lili Chartrand, Le monde fabuleux de Monsieur Fred
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard et moi
  • Jacinthe Chevalier, Aujourd'hui, le ciel
  • Marianne Dubuc, Au carnaval des animaux
  • Stéphane Jorisch, Quand je serai grand
  • Rogé, Mingan, mon village
English to French translation Blue ribbon Sophie Voillot, L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick, Far to Go)

References

  1. 1 2 "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
  2. "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries". Toronto Star, November 13, 2013.

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