Governor General's Literary AwardTranslation (English to French)

Given by Canada Council for the Arts

Other Names: Prix du Gouverneur général (French)
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Each year, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada collaborate to honour the finest in Canadian literature. The categories are: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, show more children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation. show less
Stages:
All, Winner (797), Honour Book (15), Finalist (1,593), Shortlist (5), Nominee (3)
Categories:
All, Children's Literature (3), Children's Literature-French (5), Children's Literature-Illustration (24), Children's Literature-Illustration, Stéphane Jorisch, illustrator (1), Children's literature (8), Children's literature, French (2), Children’s Literature — Illustration (English) (1), Children’s Literature — Illustration (French) (1), Citation, Juvenile (1), Drama (4), Drama (?) (2), Drama (English) (72), Drama (French) (52), English Children's Literature – Text (4), Essays (English) (1), Essays (French) (4), Fiction (English) (243), Fiction (French) (76), French to English translation (107), Honour Book Children's Literature-Illustration (1), Juvenile (8), Littérature jeunesse - illustrations & Littérature jeunesse - texte (1), Non-fiction (English) (260), Non-fiction (French) (54), Poetry (3), Poetry (English) (96), Poetry (French) (50), Poetry or Drama (53), Poésie et théâtre (16), Romans et nouvelles (12), Translation (9), Translation (English to French) (150), Translation (French to English) (57), Translation (French to Englsih) (1), Vols. 1 & 2, Non-fiction (1), Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books (4), Young People's Literature - Text (4), Young People's Literature - Text (English) (1), Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books (24), Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books (English) (19), Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books (French) (40), Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books, French (1), Young People’s Literature — Text (49), Young People’s Literature — Text (English) (17), Young People’s Literature — Text (French) (40), Études et essais (21), No Category (13)
Years:
All, 2023 (5), 2022 (5), 2021 (5), 2020 (5), 2019 (3), 2018 (4), 2017 (1), 2016 (5), 2015 (3), 2014 (5), 2013 (4), 2012 (5), 2011 (3), 2010 (5), 2009 (5), 2008 (4), 2007 (4), 2006 (5), 2005 (5), 2004 (5), 2003 (5), 2002 (5), 2001 (3), 2000 (3), 1999 (3), 1998 (3), 1997 (4), 1996 (2), 1995 (5), 1994 (4), 1993 (3), 1992 (5), 1991 (5), 1990 (3), 1989 (3), 1988 (4), 1987 (4)
Announced:
November 2023: Winner2023 Recent

Winner 39

WorkYear
Dans l'ombre du soleil : réflexions sur la race et les récits by Esi Edugyan2023
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles2022
The Collected Poems by Elizabeth Smart2021
Ocean by Sue Goyette2020
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien2019
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler2018
Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China by Alexandre Trudeau2017
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk2016
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler2015
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King2014
Far to Go by Alison Pick2013
Glenn Gould by Mark Kingwell2012
Toxique ou L'incident dans l'autobus by Greg MacArthur2011
Cockroach by Rawi Hage2010
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb2009
The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved2008
Last Notes: And Other Stories by Tamas Dobozy2007
Salamander by Thomas Wharton2006
Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work: A Study in Performance Practice by Kevin Bazzana2005
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana2005
The Accidental Indies by Robert Finley2004
The Tragedy Queen by Linda Leith2003
A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott2002
No Logo by Naomi Klein2001
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald2000
Transfiguration by E. D. Blodgett1999
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor1998
Digging Up the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath1997
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics by Jane Jacobs1996
Entre l'ordre et la liberte: Colonialisme, pouvoir et transition vers le capitalisme dans le Quebec du XIXe siecle by Gérald Bernier1995
Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason1994
Wales' Work by Robert Walshe1993
Mémoire postmoderne by Mark A. Cheetham1992
Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art by Mark A. Cheetham1992
The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce G. Trigger1991
The Second Scroll by A.M. Klein1990
The phases of love by Dorothy Livesay1989
Nucleus: The history of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited by Robert Bothwell1988
Willie : A Romance: Volume 1 of the King Years (King Years, Vol 1) by Heather Robertson1987

Finalist 150

WorkYear
Dans l'ombre du soleil : réflexions sur la race et les récits by Esi Edugyan2023
Tout est bien by Mona Awad2023
N'ayons pas peur du ciel by Emma Hooper2023
Père fictif by Joe Ollmann2023
Soufrelangue by Rebecca Salazar2023
Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club by Megan Gail Coles2022
Im düstern Wald werden unsre Leiber hängen by Ava Farmehri2022
The Beguiling by Zsuzsi Gartner2022
Salt fish girl by Larissa Lai2022
The Wagers by Sean Michaels2022
The Collected Poems by Elizabeth Smart2021
Rose's Run by Dawn Dumont2021
Dominoes at the Crossroads by Kaie Kellough2021
Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots by Erin Moure2021
Wisdom in Nonsense: Invaluable Lessons from My Father by Heather O'Neill2021
Ocean by Sue Goyette2020
Nobody Cries at Bingo by Dawn Dumont2020
Beirut Hellfire Society by Rawi Hage2020
The Birth House by Ami McKay2020
Jonny Appleseed by Joshua Whitehead2020
Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien2019
The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline2019
The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor2019
Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler2018
How You Were Born by Kate Cayley2018
The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays by Andrew Forbes2018
Fabrizio's Return by Mark Frutkin2018
Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China by Alexandre Trudeau2017
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life by James Daschuk2016
Swim by Marianne Apostolides2016
The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel2016
Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler2016
The Comeback: How Aboriginals Are Reclaiming Power And Influence by John Ralston Saul2016
Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler2015
Blood and Daring: How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation by John Boyko2015
Bernadette in the Doghouse (The Lunch Bunch) by Susan Glickman2015
The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King2014
The Printmaker's Daughter: A Novel by Katherine Govier2014
A Short History of Indians in Canada: Stories by Thomas King2014
April Fool's Day: A Novel (P.S.) by Josip Novakovich2014
The Blondes: A Novel by Emily Schultz2014
Far to Go by Alison Pick2013
Word Nerd by Susin Nielsen2013
Arrival City: How the Largest Migration in History Is Reshaping Our World by Doug Saunders2013
Swing Low: A Life by Miriam Toews2013
Glenn Gould by Mark Kingwell2012
Distantly Related to Freud by Ann Charney2012
Carolan's Farewell by Charles Foran2012
The Prophet's Camel Bell by Margaret Laurence2012
Irma Voth by Miriam Toews2012
Toxique ou L'incident dans l'autobus by Greg MacArthur2011
Going Ashore by Mavis Gallant2011
Le droit chemin by David Homel2011
Cockroach by Rawi Hage2010
A Fairly Good Time by Mavis Gallant2010
Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism by Joseph Heath2010
Wolf Rider by Sharon Stewart2010
The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews2010
Sweetness in the Belly by Camilla Gibb2009
The Outlander by Gil Adamson2009
Soul of All Great Designs: A Novel by Neil Bissoondath2009
Right Away Monday by Joel Thomas Hynes2009
Certainty by Madeleine Thien2009
The Tracey Fragments by Maureen Medved2008
The Great Lakes: The Natural History of a Changing Region by Wayne Grady2008
Roc & rail Trains fantômes ; suivi de Slague, l'histoire d'un mineur by Mansel Robinson2008
Bang Crunch by Neil Smith2008
Last Notes: And Other Stories by Tamas Dobozy2007
The Rocking Chair and other Poems by A.M. Klein2007
Not a Trace by Norah McClintock2007
The End of the Alphabet by CS Richardson2007
Salamander by Thomas Wharton2006
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages by Mark Abley2006
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus by Margaret Atwood2006
The Man Who Wanted to Drink Up the Sea by Pan Bouyoucas2006
Tree: A Life Story by David Suzuki2006
Glenn Gould: The Performer in the Work: A Study in Performance Practice by Kevin Bazzana2005
Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana2005
The Way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald2005
One Hundred Million Hearts by Kerri Sakamoto2005
A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews2005
The Accidental Indies by Robert Finley2004
Mary Ann Alice by Brian Doyle2004
Elle: A Novel by Douglas Glover2004
What's Left Us by Aislinn Hunter2004
Hellman's Scrapbook by Robert Majzels2004
The Tragedy Queen by Linda Leith2003
Blue Gold: The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water by Maude Barlow2003
The Speaking Cure by David Homel2003
The Art of Nation-Building: Pageantry and Spectacle at Quebec's Tercentenary by H. V. Nelles2003
The Ethical Canary: Science, Society and the Human Spirit by Margaret A. Somerville2003
A History of Celibacy by Elizabeth Abbott2002
The politics of the imagination: A life of F.R. Scott by Sandra Djwa2002
Berlin in autumn: The philosopher in old age (Doreen B. Townsend Center occasional papers) by Michael Ignatieff2002
The Rights Revolution (Massey Lectures series) by Michael Ignatieff2002
The Nature of Economies by Jane Jacobs2002
No Logo by Naomi Klein2001
The Farfarers: Before the Norse by Farley Mowat2001
Suburban Motel by George F. Walker2001
Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald2000
Butterfly Lovers by Charles Foran2000
The Warrior's Honor by Michael Ignatieff2000
Transfiguration by E. D. Blodgett1999
Bear by Marian Engel1999
Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century by John Ralston Saul1999
Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by Charles Taylor1998
Self by Yann Martel1998
Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art by Ira Nadel1998
Digging Up the Mountains by Neil Bissoondath1997
Insight: A Study of Human Understanding by Bernard J. F. Lonergan1997
The Underside of Stones: A Story Cycle by George Szanto1997
Storm Glass by Jane Urquhart1997
Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics by Jane Jacobs1996
The dangers of critical thought : 3 stories by Stephen Schecter1996
Entre l'ordre et la liberte: Colonialisme, pouvoir et transition vers le capitalisme dans le Quebec du XIXe siecle by Gérald Bernier1995
On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows by Neil Bissoondath1995
The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars1995
Trudeau and our times, Volume 2 : The heroic delusion by Christina McCall1995
Loyalty to the hunt by Dorina Michelutti1995
Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas by Olive Patricia Dickason1994
Social scientists and politics in Canada : between clerisy and vanguard by Stephen Brooks1994
Giants of Garbage: The Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution by Harold Crooks1994
Among the Shadows: Tales from the Darker Side by L. M. Montgomery1994
Wales' Work by Robert Walshe1993
The Emergence of Social Security in Canada by Dennis Guest1993
The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor1993
Mémoire postmoderne by Mark A. Cheetham1992
Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art by Mark A. Cheetham1992
Quick And The Dead by Linda McQuaig1992
Magic for Marigold by L. M. Montgomery1992
Company of Adventurers by Peter C. Newman1992
The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660 by Bruce G. Trigger1991
Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies1991
Electrical Storms by David Homel1991
Canada Rediscovered (Mercury Series) by Robert McGhee1991
Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea by L. M. Montgomery1991
The Second Scroll by A.M. Klein1990
Onyx John by Trevor Ferguson1990
Letters to a Quebecois Friend by Philip Resnick1990
The phases of love by Dorothy Livesay1989
A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurence1989
Warm Wind In China by Kent Stetson1989
Nucleus: The history of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited by Robert Bothwell1988
If It Weren't For Sex...I'd Have To Get A Job: Confessions Of A Private Investigator by James Burke1988
Taking the veil : an alternative to marriage, motherhood, and spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 by Marta Danylewycz1988
The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials, and the Cold War by Merrily Weisbord1988
Willie : A Romance: Volume 1 of the King Years (King Years, Vol 1) by Heather Robertson1987
The Colour of Blood by Brian Moore1987
The Politics of Reproduction by Mary O'Brien1987
Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur by Mordecai Richler1987

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Each year, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada collaborate to honour the finest in Canadian literature. The categories are: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation. (English, Member-written)
Each year, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Governor General of Canada collaborate to honour the finest in Canadian literature. The categories are: fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature (text and illustration) and translation (English, Member-written)

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