All Awards/Governor General's Literary Awards

Award

Governor General's Literary Awards

88 years tracked (1936–2025), 260 entries total.

2025

Small Ceremonies

Kyle Edwards · Fiction

Maria Reva · Fiction

Katherena Vermette · Fiction

2024

Jordan Abel · Fiction

Canisia Lubrin · Fiction

Her Body Among Animals

Paola Ferrante · Fiction

Oonya Kempadoo · Fiction

2023

Anuja Varghese · Fiction

A History of Burning

Janika Oza · Fiction

In the Upper Country

Kai Thomas · Fiction

The Sleeping Car Porter

Suzette Mayr · Fiction

Iain Reid · Fiction

2022

Sheila Heti · Fiction

All the Quiet Places

Brian Thomas Isaac · Fiction

Sheila Murray · Fiction

Lisa Bird-Wilson · Fiction

2021

Norma Dunning · Fiction

Fictional Father

Joe Ollmann · Fiction

G. A. Grisenthwaite · Fiction

Rachel Cusk · Fiction

You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.

Sheung-King · Fiction

2020

Five Little Indians

Michelle Good · Fiction

Butter Honey Pig Bread

Francesca Ekwuyasi · Fiction

Indians on Vacation

Thomas King · Fiction

The Baudelaire Fractal

Lisa Robertson · Fiction

2019

Joan Thomas · Fiction

Marianne Micros · Fiction

Michael Crummey · Fiction

2018

Sarah Henstra · Fiction

Beirut Hellfire Society

Rawi Hage · Fiction

Jonny Appleseed

Joshua Whitehead · Fiction

The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Craig Davidson · Fiction

Miriam Toews · Fiction

Paige Cooper · Fiction

2017

The Marrow Thieves

Cherie Dimaline · Traduction (de l’anglais vers le français) by Madeleine Stratford (2019) and for Young People’s Literature — Text

We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night

Joel Thomas Hynes · Fiction

All the Beloved Ghosts

Alison Macleod · Fiction

Lost in September

Kathleen Winter · Fiction

Uncertain Weights and Measures

Jocelyn Parr · Fiction

2016

Do Not Say We Have Nothing

Madeleine Thien · Traduction (de l’anglais vers le français) by Catherine Leroux (2019) and for by English Fiction

Katherena Vermette · Fiction

Anosh Irani · Fiction

Yiddish for Pirates

Gary Barwin · Fiction

2015

Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

Mark L. Winston · Nonfiction

Daddy Lenin and Other Stories

Guy Vanderhaeghe · Fiction

How You Were Born

Kate Cayley · Fiction

Rachel Cusk · Fiction

The Evening Chorus

Helen Humphreys · Fiction

The Winter Family

Clifford Jackman · Fiction

2014

The Back of the Turtle

Thomas King · Fiction

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

Thomas King · Traduction

This One Summer

Mariko Tamaki · Children's Literature — Illustration

Juliet Was a Surprise

Bill Gaston · Fiction

Michael Crummey · Fiction

The Opening Sky

Joan Thomas · Fiction

2013

Eleanor Catton · Fiction

A Beautiful Truth

Colin McAdam · Fiction

The Hungry Ghosts

Shyam Selvadurai · Fiction

The Lion Seeker

Kenneth Bonert · Fiction

Joseph Boyden · Fiction

2012

Linda Spalding · Fiction

Dr. Brinkley's Tower

Robert Hough · Fiction

Tamas Dobozy · Fiction

The Headmaster's Wager

Vincent Lam · Fiction

The Juliet Stories

Carrie Snyder · Fiction

2011

The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt · Fiction

Half Blood Blues

Esi Edugyan · English Language Fiction

David Bezmozgis · Fiction

This Dark Endeavor

Alexi Zentner · Fiction

2010

Boxing the Compass

Greene, Richard · Poetry

Dianne Warren · Fiction

Kim Thúy · Romans et nouvelles

Kathleen Winter · Fiction

Emma Donoghue · Fiction

C. A. Rainfield · Children's Literature - Text

Waiting for Joe

Sandra Birdsell · Fiction

2009

Sweetness in the Belly

Camilla Gibb · Traduction

The Mistress Of Nothing

Kate Pullinger · Fiction

Michael Crummey · Fiction

The Golden Mean

Annabel Lyon · Fiction

Too Much Happiness

Alice Munro · Fiction

Vanishing and Other Stories

Deborah Willis · Fiction

2008

The Origin of Species

Nino Ricci · Fiction

Atmospheric Disturbances

Rivka Galchen · Fiction

Rawi Hage · Fiction

The Great Karoo

Fred Stenson · Fiction

The Lost Highway

David Adams Richards · Fiction

2007

Michael Ondaatje · Fiction

Barbara Gowdy · Fiction

Lullabies for Little Criminals

Heather O'neill · Fiction

David Chariandy · Fiction

The Assassin's Song

M. G. Vassanji · Fiction

2006

The Law of Dreams

Behrens, Peter · Fiction

Rawi Hage · Fiction

Bill Gaston · Fiction

The Fearsome Particles

Trevor Cole · Fiction

2005

A Perfect Night to Go to China

David Gilmour · Fiction

Kathy Page · Fiction

Charlotte Gill · Fiction

Nellcott Is My Darling

Golda Fried · Fiction

Joseph Boyden · Fiction

2004

A Complicated Kindness

Miriam Toews · Fiction

Natasha and Other Stories

David Bezmozgis · Fiction

Norman Bray, In the Performance of His Life

Trevor Cole · Fiction

Alice Munro · Fiction

Some Great Thing

Colin McAdam · Fiction

2003

Douglas Glover · Fiction

Elizabeth Hay · Fiction

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

Jean McNeil · Fiction

Ten Thousand Lovers

Edeet Ravel · Fiction

2002

A Song for Nettie Johnson

Gloria Sawai · Fiction

Ann Ireland · Fiction

The Case of Lena S.

David Bergen · Fiction

The Navigator of New York

Wayne Johnston · Fiction

Carol Shields · Fiction

2001

Richard B. Wright · Fiction

Arthur Slade · Children’s Literature — Text

Tessa McWatt · Fiction

Yann Martel · Fiction

Thomas Wharton · Fiction

The Stone Carvers

Jane Urquhart · Fiction

2000

Michael Ondaatje · Fiction

Mercy Among the Children

David Adams Richards · Fiction

Eden Robinson · Fiction

The Blind Assassin

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

Austin Clarke · Fiction

1999

Elizabeth and After

Matt Cohen · Fiction

Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?

Elyse Gasco · Fiction

Keith Maillard · Fiction

The Worlds Within Her

Neil Bissoondath · Fiction

1998

Forms of Devotion

Diane Schoemperlen · Fiction

Djanet Sears · Drama

Lynn Coady · Fiction

The Colony of Unrequited Dreams

Wayne Johnston · Fiction

The Electrical Field

Kerri Sakamoto · Fiction

Barbara Gowdy · Fiction

1997

Awake and Dreaming

Kit Pearson · Children's Literature — Text

The Underpainter

Jane Urquhart · Fiction

First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

Eric McCormack · Fiction

Matt Cohen · Fiction

Elizabeth Hay · Fiction

The Two-Headed Calf

Sandra Birdsell · Fiction

1996

The Englishman's Boy

Guy Vanderhaeghe · Fiction

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

Coming Down from Wa

Audrey Thomas · Fiction

Let Me Be the One

Elisabeth Harvor · Fiction

Teaching Pigs to Sing

Cordelia Strube · Fiction

The Green Library

Janice Kulyk Keefer · Fiction

1995

The Roaring Girl

Greg Hollingshead · Fiction

Highways and Dancehalls

Diana Atkinson · Fiction

Barbara Gowdy · Fiction

The Age of Longing

Richard B. Wright · Fiction

1994

A Discovery of Strangers

Rudy Wiebe · Fiction

Division of Surgery

Donna McFarlane · Fiction

How Insensitive

Russell Smith · Fiction

Alice Munro · Fiction

The Robber Bride

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

1993

The Stone Diaries

Carol Shields · Fiction

Caroline Adderson · Fiction

For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down

David Adams Richards · Fiction

Green Grass, Running Water

Thomas King · Fiction

Carol Windley · Fiction

1992

The English Patient

Michael Ondaatje · Fiction

Deep Hollow Creek

Sheila Watson · Fiction

The Afterlife of George Cartwright

John Steffler · Fiction

Archie Crail · Fiction

The Chrome Suite

Sandra Birdsell · Fiction

1991

Such a Long Journey

Rohinton Mistry · Fiction

A Guide to Animal Behaviour

Douglas Glover · Fiction

Don Dickinson · Fiction

Terry Griggs · Fiction

Wilderness Tips

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

1990

Lives of the Saints

Nino Ricci · Fiction

Disappearing Moon Café

Sky Lee · Fiction

Friend of My Youth

Alice Munro · Fiction

On Double Tracks

Leslie Hall Pinder · Fiction

1989

Paul Quarrington · Fiction

A View from the Roof

Helen Weinzweig · Fiction

The Golden Thread

Ann Copeland · Fiction

1988

Nights Below Station Street

David Adams Richards · Fiction

Atmospheres Apollinaire

Mark Frutkin · Fiction

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

The Cost of Living

Kenneth Radu · Fiction

The Victory of Geraldine Gull

Joan Clark · Fiction

1987

A Dream Like Mine

M. T. Kelly · Fiction

In the Skin of a Lion

Michael Ondaatje · Fiction

Tales from Firozsha Baag

Rohinton Mistry · Fiction

The Ring Master

David Gurr · Fiction

1986

The Progress of Love

Alice Munro · Fiction

A Stone Watermelon

Lois Braun · Fiction

Adult Entertainment

John Metcalf · Fiction

No Fixed Address

Aritha van Herk · Fiction

1985

The Handmaid's Tale

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

Foreign Affairs

Keath Fraser · Fiction

Queen of the Headaches

Sharon Butala · Fiction

Road to the Stilt House

David Adams Richards · Fiction

1984

The Engineer of Human Souls

Josef Škvorecký · Fiction

Intertidal Life

Audrey Thomas · Fiction

Not Wanted on the Voyage

Timothy Findley · Fiction

1983

Shakespeare's Dog

Leon Rooke · Fiction

H. R. Percy · Fiction

People Like Us in a Place Like This

Philip Kreiner · Fiction

The Biggest Modern Woman of the World

Susan Swan · Fiction

1982

Guy Vanderhaeghe · Fiction

Chris Scott · Fiction

The Moons of Jupiter

Alice Munro · Fiction

1981

Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories

Mavis Gallant · Fiction

1980

George Bowering · Fiction

Leon Rooke · Fiction

The Charcoal Burners

Susan Musgrave · Fiction

1979

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

Jack Hodgins · Fiction

Life Before Man

Margaret Atwood · Fiction

The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone

Matt Cohen · Fiction

1978

Who Do You Think You Are?

Alice Munro · Fiction

1977

Timothy Findley · Fiction

1976

Marian Engel · Fiction

1975

The Great Victorian Collection

Brian Moore · Fiction

1974

Margaret Laurence · Fiction

1973

The Temptations of Big Bear

Rudy Wiebe · Fiction

1972

Robertson Davies · Fiction

1971

St. Urbain's Horseman

Mordecai Richler · Fiction

1970

The Collected Works of Billy the Kid

Michael Ondaatje · Prose and Poetry

The New Ancestors

Dave Godfrey · Fiction

1969

The Studhorse Man

Robert Kroetsch · Fiction

1968

Mordecai Richler · Fiction

Dance of the Happy Shades

Alice Munro · Fiction

1966

Margaret Laurence · Fiction

1964

Douglas LePan · Fiction

1963

Hugh Garner's Best Stories

Hugh Garner · Fiction

1962

Running to Paradise

Kildare Dobbs · Fiction

1961

Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place

Malcolm Lowry · Fiction

1960

The Luck of Ginger Coffey

Brian Moore · Fiction

1959

The Watch That Ends the Night

Hugh MacLennan · Fiction

1958

Colin McDougall · Fiction

1957

Rue Deschambault

Gabrielle Roy · Fiction

Street of Riches

Gabrielle Roy · Fiction

1956

Lost in the Barrens

Farley Mowat · Juvenile

Adele Wiseman · Fiction

1955

The Sixth of June

Lionel Shapiro · Fiction

1954

The Fall of a Titan

Igor Gouzenko · Fiction

1953

David Walker · Fiction

1952

David Walker · Fiction

1951

The Loved and the Lost

Morley Callaghan · Fiction

1950

Germaine Guèvremont · Fiction

1949

Mr. Ames Against Time

Philip Child · Fiction

1948

Hugh MacLennan · Fiction

1947

Gabrielle Roy · Fiction

1946

Continental Revue

Winifred Bambrick · Fiction

1945

Hugh MacLennan · Fiction

1944

Earth and High Heaven

Gwethalyn Graham · Fiction

1943

The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek

Thomas H. Raddall · Fiction

1942

G. Herbert Sallans · Fiction

1941

Three Came to Ville Marie

Alan Sullivan · Fiction

1940

Ringuet · Fiction

1939

The Champlain Road

Franklin D. McDowell · Fiction

1938

Gwethalyn Graham · Fiction

1937

The Dark Weaver

Laura G. Salverson · Fiction

1936

Think of the Earth

Bertram Brooker · Fiction