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2016 Governor General's Awards

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The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016,[1] and the winners were announced on October 25.[2]

English

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
Poetry Blue ribbon Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late
Drama Blue ribbon Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl
Children's literature Blue ribbon Martine Leavitt, Calvin
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden
French to English translation Blue ribbon Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone
Poetry Blue ribbon Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer
Drama Blue ribbon Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre
Children's literature Blue ribbon François Gilbert, Hare Krishna
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune
English to French translation Blue ribbon Catherine Ego, La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone (James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains)

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