2011 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 11,[1] and the winners were announced on November 15.[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
Non-fiction Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
  • Nathan M. Greenfield, The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45
  • Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891
  • JJ Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
  • Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Poetry Phil Hall, Killdeer
  • Michael Boughn, Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic
  • Kate Eichhorn, Fieldnotes, A Forensic
  • Garry Thomas Morse, Discovery Passages
  • Susan Musgrave, Origami Dove
Drama Erin Shields, If We Were Birds
Children's literature Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
Children's illustration Cybèle Young, Ten Birds
  • Isabelle Arsenault, Migrant
  • Kim LaFave, Fishing with Gubby
  • Renata Liwska, Red Wagon
  • Frank Viva, Along a Long Road
French to English translation Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (Partita pour Glenn Gould, Georges Leroux)

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Perrine Leblanc, L'homme blanc
  • Alain Beaulieu, Le postier Passila
  • Jean-Simon Desrochers, Les sabliers de solitude
  • Tassia Trifiatis, Mère-grand
  • Mélanie Vincelette, Polynie
Non-fiction Georges Leroux, Wanderer : essai sur le Voyage d'hiver de Franz Schubert
  • Karine Cellard, Leçons de littérature : un siècle de manuels scolaires au Québec
  • Henri Dorion and Jean-Paul Lacasse, Le Québec : territoire incertain
  • Catherine Leclerc, Des langues en partage? Cohabitation du français et de l'anglais en littérature contemporaine
  • Patrick Tillard, De Bartleby aux écrivains négatifs : une approche de la négation
Poetry Louise Dupré, Plus haut que les flammes
  • Martine Audet, Je demande pardon à l'espèce qui brille (Les Grands cimetières II)
  • Roger Des Roches, Le nouveau temps du verbe être
  • Patrick Lafontaine, Grève du zèle
  • Jean-François Poupart, L'Or de Klimt
Drama Normand Chaurette, Ce qui meurt en dernier
  • Steve Gagnon, La montagne rouge (SANG)
  • Pierre-Luc Lasalle, Judith aussi
  • Étienne Lepage, L'enclos de l'éléphant
  • Wajdi Mouawad, Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons
Children's literature Martin Fournier, Les aventures de Radisson - 1. L'enfer ne brûle pas
  • Anne Bernard-Lenoir, Enigmae.com - 3. L'orteil de Paros
  • Camille Bouchard, Un massacre magnifique
  • Mario Brassard, La saison des pluies
  • Pierre Marmiesse, Sous le signe d'Exu - 1. Initiation
Children's illustration Caroline Merola, Lili et les poilus
  • Sophie Casson, Quelle pagaille!
  • Shea Chang, Tarentelle
  • Élisabeth Eudes-Pascal, Bill Chocottes, le héros qui avait peur
  • Rogé, Haïti, mon pays
English to French translation Maryse Warda, Toxique ou l'incident dans l'autobus (The Toxic Bus Incident, Greg MacArthur)
  • Geneviève Letarte, Le week-end en Bourgogne (Mavis Gallant, Going Ashore)
  • Sophie Voillot, Le droit chemin (David Homel, Mid Way)
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References
  1. "Edugyan, deWitt shortlisted for Governor General literary award". Toronto Star, October 11, 2011.
  2. "G-G winner Patrick deWitt says grant ‘saved’ him". The Globe and Mail, November 15, 2011.
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