Canadian literary award
The Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in English. Since 1987[1] it is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit , seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. Originally presented by the Canadian Authors Association ,[clarification needed ] the Governor General's Awards program became a project of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1959.[2]
The program was created in 1937 and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards .[1] Beginning in 1942 there were two winners annually, with separate awards presented for creative non-fiction and academic non-fiction ;[3] however, this was discontinued after the 1958 awards, and then returned to a single non-fiction category.
The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Since then, the advance shortlist has numbered three to five.
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Winners and nominees
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2000s
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 2000-2009[4]
Year
Author
Title
Ref.
2000
Nega Mezlekia
Notes from the Hyena's Belly
Robert Bringhurst
A Story as Sharp as a Knife
Trevor Herriot
River in a Dry Land
A. B. McKillop
The Spinster and the Prophet
2001
Thomas Homer-Dixon
The Ingenuity Gap
Susan Crean
The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr
Ross A. Laird
Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft
Alberto Manguel
Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate
Jack Todd
The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story
2002
Andrew Nikiforuk
Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
Carolyn Abraham
Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
Jill Frayne
Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land
Stephen Henighan
When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing
Don McKay
Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness
2003
Margaret MacMillan
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Andrew Clark
A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle
Andrew Cohen
While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
Maggie de Vries
Vancouver, for Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
Ross King
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
2004
Roméo Dallaire
Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Anne Coleman
I'll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers
Christopher Dewdney
Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
Jane Jacobs
Dark Age Ahead
Jan Zwicky
Wisdom & Metaphor
2005
John Vaillant
The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed
[5]
Ted Bishop
Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
Michael Mitchell
The Molly Fire
Edward Shorter
Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire
Jessica Warner
The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist
2006
Ross King
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism
Afua Cooper
The Hanging of Angélique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montréal
Susanne Reber and Robert Renaud
Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
Michael Strangelove
The Empire of Mind: Digital Piracy and the Anti-Capitalist Movement
Christine Wiesenthal
The Half-Lives of Pat Lowther
2007
Karolyn Smardz Frost
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Rodrigo Bascunan and Christian Pearce
Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent
John English
Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968
Stephanie Nolen
28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Bridget Stutchbury
Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them
2008
Christie Blatchford
Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army
[6]
Douglas Hunter
God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery
Sid Marty
The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
James Orbinski
An Imperfect Offering: Humanitarian Action in the Twenty-first Century
Chris Turner
The Geography of Hope: A Tour of the World We Need
2009
M. G. Vassanji
A Place Within: Rediscovering India
[7]
Randall Hansen
Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-45
Trevor Herriot
Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Eric Margolis
American Raj: Liberation or Domination? (Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World)
Eric Siblin
The Cello Suites: J.S. Bach, Pablo Casals, and the Search for a Baroque Masterpiece
2010s
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 2010-2019[4]
Year
Author
Title
Ref.
2010
Allan Casey
Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Elizabeth Abbott
A History of Marriage
Ian Brown
The Boy in the Moon: A Father's Search for His Disabled Son
Karen Connelly
Burmese Lessons: A Love Story
John English
Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000
2011
Charles Foran
Mordecai: The Life and 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
2012
Ross King
Leonardo and the Last Supper
[8]
Nahlah Ayed
A Thousand Farewells: A Reporter's Journey from Refugee Camp to the Arab Spring
Carol Bishop-Gwyn
The Pursuit of Perfection: A Life of Celia Franca
Wade Davis
Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Noah Richler
What We Talk About When We Talk About War
2013
Sandra Djwa
Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page
[9]
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
2014
Michael Harris
The End of Absence: Reclaiming What We’ve Lost in a World of Constant Connection
[10]
Arno Kopecky
The Oil Man and the Sea: Navigating the Northern Gateway
Edmund Metatawabin and Alexandra Shimo
Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Maria Mutch
Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
2015
Mark L. Winston
Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
[11]
Ted Bishop
The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word
David Halton
Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War
Michael Harris
Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover
Armand Garnet Ruffo
Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
2016
Bill Waiser
A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)
Teva Harrison
In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer
[12]
Harold R. Johnson
Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)
Marc Raboy
Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
2017
Graeme Wood
The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State
Sharon Butala
Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
Sarah de Leeuw
Where It Hurts
Elaine Dewar
The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
Carol Off
All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
2018
Darrel J. McLeod
Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age
[13]
Carys Cragg
Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
Aida Edemariam
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History
Terese Marie Mailhot
Heart Berries
Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung
Homes: A Refugee Story
2019
Don Gillmor
To the River: Losing My Brother
[14]
Brian Harvey
Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
Naomi K. Lewis
Tiny Lights for Travellers
Alan Walker
Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
Dan Werb
City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
2020s
References
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"Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-18.
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"Governor General's Literary Awards" . The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved 2015-08-18.
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^ "Awards: Governor General Winners" . Shelf Awareness . November 19, 2008. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Man Asian Literary Prize; Governor General's Awards" . Shelf Awareness . November 18, 2009. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Governor General's; Hilary Weston; New Mexico and Ariz" . Shelf Awareness . November 19, 2012. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Governor General's Literary; Goldsmiths" . Shelf Awareness . November 15, 2013. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Governor General's Literary" . Shelf Awareness . November 21, 2014. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Governor General's Literary" . Shelf Awareness . October 29, 2015. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Obituary Note: Teva Harrison" . Shelf Awareness . May 8, 2019. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Governor General's Literary Winners" . Shelf Awareness . October 31, 2018. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Awards: Governor General's Literary; Warwick Women in Translation" . Shelf Awareness . October 30, 2019. Retrieved 2022-10-13 .
^ "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery" . CTV News , June 1, 2021.
^ "Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists" . CBC Books , May 4, 2021.
^ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize" Archived 2021-11-17 at the Wayback Machine . Coast Reporter , November 17, 2021.
^ "Rachel Cusk among fiction finalists for Governor General’s Literary Awards" . Toronto Star , October 14, 2021.
^ Deborah Dundas, "Sheila Heti, Eli Baxter win 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards for fiction and non-fiction" . Toronto Star , November 16, 2022.
^ "The finalists for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction" . CBC Books . October 12, 2022. Retrieved October 12, 2022 .
^ "Anuja Varghese wins Governor General's literary award for fiction" . Toronto Star , November 8, 2023.
^ "Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards" . Burnaby Now , October 25, 2023.
External links
English-language awards French-language awards Awards by year
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