2022 winners and finalists

Governor General’s Literary Awards

2022 English-language winners and finalists 2022 French-language winners and finalists

English-language books French-language books

Fiction

All the Quiet Places

Brian Thomas Isaac

Brindle & Glass / TouchWood Editions

Finding Edward

G. A. Grisenthwaite

Palimpsest Press

Probably Ruby

Lisa Bird-Wilson

Doubleday Canada / Penguin Random House Canada

Book cover for Pure Colour, by Sheila Heti

Winner

The Most Precious Substance on Earth

Shashi Bhat

McClelland & Stewart / Penguin Random House Canada

Jardin radio

Charlotte Biron

Le Quartanier

Les ombres blanches

Dominique Fortier

Éditions Alto

Book cover for Mille secrets mille dangers, by Alain Farah

Winner

Sans refuge

Maryse Andraos

Le Cheval dʼaoût

Tableau final de lʼamour

Larry Tremblay

La Peuplade

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Norma Dunning

Thea Lim

John Steffler

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Katia Belkhodja

Emmanuel Kattan

Alain Bernard Marchand

Poetry

Dream of No One but Myself

D.M. Bradford

Brick Books

H of H Playbook

Anne Carson

New Directions Publishing

Horrible Dance

Avery Lake

Brick Books

Book cover for Shadow Blight, by Annick MacAskill

Winner

Shifting Baseline Syndrome

Aaron Kreuter

University of Regina Press

À mon retour

Élise Turcotte

Éditions du Noroît

Chambre minimum

Frédéric Dumont

Les Herbes rouges

Book cover for Enfants du lichen, by Maya Cousineau Mollen

Winner

Le programme double de la femme tuée

Carole David

Les Herbes rouges

Vivarium

Anna Babi

les éditions du passage

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Joe Denham

Stewart Donovan

Aisha Sasha John

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Éric Charlebois

Anne-Marie Desmeules

Nadine Ltaif

Drama

Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down

Robert Chafe

Playwrights Canada Press

Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience

Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis and Medina Hahn

Talonbooks

Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) & Antigone: 方

Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho)

Playwrights Canada Press

Lady Sunrise

Marjorie Chan

Playwrights Canada Press

Book cover for The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key, by Dorothy Dittrich

Winner

Disgrâce

Nadia Girard Eddahia

Lʼinstant même

Lʼart de vivre

Liliane Gougeon Moisan

Leméac Éditeur

Book cover for Le poids des fourmis, by David Paquet

Winner

Les remugles ou La danse nuptiale est une langue morte

Caroline Bélisle

Éditions Perce-Neige

Seeker

Marie-Claude Verdier

Dramaturges Éditeurs

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Keith Barker

Marie Leofeli Romero Barlizo

Alex Poch Goldin

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Maxime Beauregard-Martin

Djennie Laguerre

Maryse Pelletier

Non-fiction

Book cover for Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth, by Eli Baxter

Winner

All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

Rebecca Donner

Little, Brown and Company / Hachette Book Group

Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis

Britt Wray

Knopf Canada / Penguin Random House Canada

Persephoneʼs Children: A Life in Fragments

Rowan McCandless

Rare Machines / Dundurn Press

Rehearsals for Living

Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Knopf Canada / Penguin Random House Canada

Armer la rage : Pour une littérature de combat

Marie-Pier Lafontaine

Héliotrope

La source et le roseau

Jean-François Beauchemin

Éditions Druide

Book cover for La Voie romaine, by Sylveline Bourion

Winner

Lʼhabitude des ruines : Le sacre de lʼoubli et de la laideur au Québec

Marie-Hélène Voyer

Lux Éditeur

Tu vois ce que je veux dire? Illustrations, métaphores et autres images qui parlent

Clément de Gaulejac

Les Presses de lʼUniversité de Montréal

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Will Aitken

Madhur Anand

Jenna Butler

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Gabrielle Giasson-Dulude

Daniel Jacques

Eftihia Mihelakis

Young People's Literature – Text

A Boy Is Not a Ghost

Edeet Ravel

Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press

Sorry For Your Loss

Joanne Levy

Orca Book Publishers

Step

Deborah Ellis

Groundwood Books / House of Anansi Press

Book cover for The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, by Jen Ferguson

Winner

Urchin

Kate Story

Running the Goat Books & Broadsides

Book cover for Cancer ascendant Autruche, by Julie Champagne

Winner

Dessiner dans les marges et autres activités de fantôme

Carolanne Foucher

Les Éditions de la Bagnole

La pluie des autres

Daphné B.

la courte échelle

Les bulles

Reynald Cantin

Les Éditions du Boréal

Les carnets de novembre

Marie-Hélène Jarry

la courte échelle

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Michael Hutchinson

Sharon Jennings

Wesley King

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Edith Kabuya

Daniel Marchildon

Mireille Villeneuve

Young People's Literature – Illustrated Books

kā-āciwīkicik / The Move

Doris George, Don K. Philpot and Alyssa Koski

Heritage House

Mina

Matthew Forsythe

Simon & Schuster Canada

The Big Bath House

Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang

Random House Studio / Penguin Random House

Book cover for The Sour Cherry Tree, by Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi

Winner

Time is a Flower

Julie Morstad

Tundra Books / Penguin Random House Canada

La fin des poux?

Orbie

Éditions Les 400 coups

Seuls

Paul Tom and Mélanie Baillairgé

la courte échelle

Book cover for Trèfle, by Nadine Robert and Qin Leng

Winner

Truffe

Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault

Les Éditions de la Pastèque

Un rhume de cheval

Pierrette Dubé and Enzo

Fonfon

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Kate Beaton

Nhung N. Tran-Davies

Frank Viva

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

David Bouchard

Beatriz Carvalho

Ninon Pelletier

Translation

Book cover for History of the Jews in Quebec, translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth

Winner

Remnants

Translated by Aleshia Jensen

Book*hug Press; translation of Le drap blanc, by Céline Huyghebaert

They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chiefʼs Quest for Truth and Harmony

Translated by Ben Vrignon

Vidacom Publications; translation of On nous appelait les Sauvages : souvenirs et espoirs dʼun chef héréditaire algonquin, by Dominique Rankin and Marie-Josée Tardif

This Is How I Disappear

Translated by Aleshia Jensen and Bronwyn Haslam

Drawn & Quarterly; translation of Cʼest comme ça que je disparais, by Mirion Malle

White Resin

Translated by Susan Ouriou

House of Anansi Press; translation of Blanc Résine, by Audrée Wilhelmy

Dans la lugubre forêt nos corps seront suspendus

Translated by Benoit Laflamme

Les Éditions LʼInterligne; traduction de Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang, dʼAva Farmehri

Le fruit de la puanteur

Translated by Sylvie Bérard and Suzanne Grenier

Triptyque, Groupe Nota bene; translation of Salt Fish Girl, by Larissa Lai

Le malenchantement de sainte Lucy

Translated by Éric Fontaine

Éditions Alto; translation of The Beguiling, by Zsuzsi Gartner

Les coups de dés

Translated by Catherine Leroux

Éditions Alto; translation of The Wagers, by Sean Michaels

Book cover for Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin, translated by Megan Gail Coles

Winner

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Anita Anand

Chantal Bilodeau

Steven Urquhart

PEER ASSESSMENT COMMITTEE

Louise Ladouceur

Aurélie Laroche

Stanley Péan

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