The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,[1] and the winners were announced on October 29.[2]
English
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Joan Thomas, Five Wives[2]
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| Non-fiction | Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother[2]
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| Poetry | Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild[2]
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| Drama | Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game[2]
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| Children's literature | Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky[2]
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| Children's illustration | Sydney Smith, Small in the City[2]
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| French to English translation | Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux)[2]
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French
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc[3]
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| Non-fiction | Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts[3]
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| Poetry | Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os[3]
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| Drama | Mishka Lavigne, Havre[3]
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| Children's literature | Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange[3]
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| Children's illustration | Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu[3]
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| English to French translation | Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)[3]
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References
- ^ "Michael Crummey, Amanda Parris and Armand Garnet Ruffo among 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, October 2, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Jane van Koeverden, "Here are the winners of the 2019 Governor General's Literary Awards". CBC Books, October 29, 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g "Voici les gagnants et gagnantes des prestigieux Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général". Ici Radio-Canada, October 29, 2019.