2020 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2020 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on May 4, 2021,[1] and the winners were announced on June 1.[2] Ordinarily the award shortlists and winners would have been named in fall 2020, but were delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Michelle Good, Five Little Indians
Non-fiction Madhur Anand, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
Poetry Anne Carson, Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
Drama Kim Senklip Harvey, Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story
Children's literature Eric Walters, The King of Jam Sandwiches
Children's illustration The Fan Brothers, The Barnabus Project
French to English translation Lazer Lederhendler, If You Hear Me (Pascale Quiviger, Si tu m'entends)
  • Oana Avasilichioaei, The Neptune Room (Bertrand Laverdure, La chambre neptune)
  • Alexis Diamond, Amaryllis & Little Witch (Pascal Brullemans, Vipérine and Petit sorcière)
  • Pablo Strauss, The Country Will Bring Us No Peace (Matthieu Simard, Ici, ailleurs)
  • J. C. Sutcliffe, Back Roads (Andrée A. Michaud, Routes secondaires)

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Sophie Létourneau, Chasse à l'homme
Non-fiction Frédérique Bernier, Hantises
  • Thomas Dommange, Le rapt ontologique
  • Michaël La Chance, Une épine empourprée
  • Guylaine Massoutre, Nous sommes le soleil
  • Stanley Péan, De préférence la nuit
Poetry Martine Audet, La Société des cendres
  • Paul Bélanger, Déblais
  • Hugues Corriveau, Et là, mon père suivi de Et là, ma mère
  • Symon Henry, L'Amour des oiseaux moches
  • Louis-Karl Picard-Sioui, Les visages de la terre
Drama Martin Bellemare, Cœur minéral
  • Le Collectif Aalaapi (Louisa Naluiyuk, Akinisie Novalinga, Mélodie Duplessis, Audrey Alasuak and Samantha Leclerc), Aalaapi, faire silence pour entendre quelque chose de beau
  • Suzie Bastien, Sucré seize (Huit filles)
  • Olivier Choinière, Zoé
  • Claude Guilmain, AmericanDream.ca
Children's literature François Blais, Lac Adélard
  • Camille Bouchard, Cicatrices
  • Magali Laurent, L'Ogre et l'enfant
  • Johanne Mercier, Il faut du tout pour faire un monstre
  • Maryse Pagé, Rap pour violoncelle seul
Children's illustration Katia Canciani and Guillaume Perreault, Pet et Répète: La véritable histoire
  • Cathon, Mimose & Sam : Mission hibernation
  • Valérie Fontaine and Nathalie Dion, Le grand méchant loup dans ma maison
  • Mireille Levert, Le pays aux mille soleils
  • Kim Nunès, Marie-Chantal Perron, Tammy Verge and Amélie Dubois, copine et Copine
English to French translation Georgette LeBlanc, Océan (Susan Goyette, Ocean)
  • Arianne Des Rochers, Jonny Appleseed (Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed)
  • Daniel Grenier, On pleure pas au bingo (Dawn Dumont, Nobody Cries at Bingo)
  • Sonya Malaborza, L'Accoucheuse de Scots Bay (Ami McKay, The Birth House)
  • Sophie Voillot, La Société du feu de l’enfer (Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society)

References
  1. "Anne Carson, Thomas King among nominees for Governor General's Literary Awards". Coast Reporter, May 4, 2020.
  2. "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
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