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 Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
Non-fiction 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
  • Priscila Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
Poetry Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs
Drama Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays
Children's literature Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
  • Beverley Brenna, The White Bicycle
  • Shane Peacock, Becoming Holmes
  • Jean E. Pendziwol, Once Upon a Northern Night
  • Valerie Sherrard, Counting Back from Nine
Children's illustration Matt James, Northwest Passage
French to English translation Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs)

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent
Non-fiction 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 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 Fanny Britt, Bienveillance
Children's literature 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 Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard et moi
English to French translation Sophie Voillot, L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick, Far to Go)
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References
  1. "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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