2022 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2022 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 12, 2022,[1] and the winners were announced on November 16.[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Sheila Heti, Pure Colour[2]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Eli Baxter, Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth[2]
  • Rebecca Donner, All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler
  • Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Rehearsals for Living
  • Rowan McCandless, Persephoneʼs Children: A Life in Fragments
  • Britt Wray, Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
Poetry Blue ribbon Annick MacAskill, Shadow Blight[2]
Drama Blue ribbon Dorothy Dittrich, The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key[2]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Jen Ferguson, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet[2]
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi, The Sour Cherry Tree[2]
  • Matthew Forsythe, Mina
  • Doris George, Don K. Philpot and Alyssa Koski, kā-āciwīkicik / The Move
  • Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang, The Big Bath House
  • Julie Morstad, Time Is a Flower
French to English translation Blue ribbon Judith Weisz Woodsworth, History of the Jews in Quebec (Pierre Anctil, Histoire des juifs du Québec)[2]
  • Aleshia Jensen, Remnants (Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc)
  • Aleshia Jensen and Bronwyn Haslam, This Is How I Disappear (Mirion Malle, Cʼest comme ça que je disparais)
  • Susan Ouriou, White Resin (Audrée Wilhelmy, Blanc Résine)
  • Ben Vrignon, They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chiefʼs Quest for Truth and Harmony (Dominique Rankin and Marie-Josée Tardif, On nous appelait les Sauvages : souvenirs et espoirs dʼun chef héréditaire Algonquin)

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Alain Farah, Mille secrets mille dangers[3]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Sylveline Bourion, La Voie romaine[3]
  • Jean-François Beauchemin, La source et le roseau
  • Clément de Gaulejac, Tu vois ce que je veux dire? Illustrations, métaphores et autres images qui parlent
  • Marie-Pier Lafontaine, Armer la rage : Pour une littérature de combat
  • Marie-Hélène Voyer, Lʼhabitude des ruines : Le sacre de lʼoubli et de la laideur au Québec
Poetry Blue ribbon Maya Cousineau Mollen, Enfants du lichen[3]
  • Anna Babi, Vivarium
  • Carole David, Le programme double de la femme tuée
  • Frédéric Dumont, Chambre minimum
  • Élise Turcotte, À mon retour
Drama Blue ribbon David Paquet, Le poids des fourmis[3]
  • Caroline Bélisle, Les remugles, ou La danse nuptiale est une langue morte
  • Nadia Girard Eddahia, Disgrâce
  • Liliane Gougeon Moisan, L'Art de vivre
  • Marie-Claude Verdier, Seeker
Children's literature Blue ribbon Julie Champagne, Cancer ascendant Autruche[3]
  • Daphné B., La Pluie des autres
  • Reynald Cantin, Les Bulles
  • Carolanne Foucher, Dessiner dans les marges et autres activités de fantôme
  • Marie-Hélène Jarry, Les carnets de novembre
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Nadine Robert and Qin Leng, Trèfle[3]
English to French translation Blue ribbon Mélissa Verreault, Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin (Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club)[3]
  • Sylvie Bérard and Suzanne Grenier, Le fruit de la puanteur (Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl)
  • Éric Fontaine, Le malenchantement de sainte Lucy (Zsuzsi Gartner, The Beguiling)
  • Benoit Laflamme, Dans la lugubre forêt nos corps seront suspendus (Ava Farmehri, Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang)
  • Catherine Leroux, Les coups de dés (Sean Michaels, The Wagers)

References
  1. Adina Bresge, "Sheila Heti, Anne Carson among finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards". Toronto Star, October 12, 2022.
  2. Deborah Dundas, "Sheila Heti, Eli Baxter win 2022 Governor General's Literary Awards for fiction and non-fiction". Toronto Star, November 16, 2022.
  3. Laila Maalouf, "Alain Farah remporte le Prix du Gouverneur général". La Presse, November 16, 2022.
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