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2018 Governor General's Literary Awards Finalists

The Canada Council for the Arts celebrates great books: our Governor General’s Literary Awards recognize finalists and winners in seven categories for both official languages and for readers of all ages.

by Kerry Clare · Tagged governor generals awards

Wayside Sang

by (author) Cecily Nicholson

Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom

by (author) Jordan Tannahill
foreword by Kirsten Bowen

Gertrude and Alice

by (author) Evalyn Parry & Anna Chatterton
with Karin Randoja

Paradise Lost

by (author) Erin Shields
introduction by Paul Stevens

The Men in White

by (author) Anosh Irani

This Is How We Got Here

by (author) Keith Barker

Dead Reckoning

How I Came to Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father

by (author) Carys Cragg

Heart Berries

A Memoir

by (author) Terese Marie Mailhot

Homes

A Refugee Story

by (author) Abu Bakr al Rabeeah & Winnie Yeung

Mamaskatch

A Cree Coming of Age

by (author) Darrel J. McLeod

The Wife's Tale

A Personal History

by (author) Aida Edemariam

Ebb and Flow

by (author) Heather Smith

Learning to Breathe

by (author) Janice Lynn Mather

Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

by (author) Jonathan Auxier

The Journey of Little Charlie

by (author) Christopher Paul Curtis

Winnie's Great War

by (author) Lindsay Mattick & Josh Greenhut
illustrated by Sophie Blackall

Africville

by (author) Shauntay Grant
illustrated by Eva Campbell

At the Pond

illustrated by H. Werner Zimmermann

Go Show the World

A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes

by (author) Wab Kinew
illustrated by Joe Morse

Ocean Meets Sky

illustrated by Terry Fan & Eric Fan

They Say Blue

illustrated by Jillian Tamaki

Descent into Night

by (author) Edem Awumey
translated by Phyllis Aronoff & Howard Scott

Jacob Isaac Segal

A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu

by (author) Pierre Anctil
translated by Vivian Felsen

Little Beast

by (author) Julie Demers
translated by Rhonda Mullins

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