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2015 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015,[1] and the winners were announced on October 28.

English

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
  • 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me
Drama Blue ribbon David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave
Children's literature Blue ribbon Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth
Children's illustration Blue ribbon JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers
French to English translation Blue ribbon Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine)

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Nicolas Dickner, Six degrés de liberté
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Jean-Philippe Warren, Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l'épée (1848-1906)
Poetry Blue ribbon Joël Pourbaix, Le mal du pays est un art oublié
Drama Blue ribbon Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet
Children's literature Blue ribbon Louis-Philippe Hébert, Marie Réparatrice
Children's illustration Blue ribbon André Marois and Patrick Doyon, Le voleur de sandwichs
English to French translation Blue ribbon Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)

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