2013 Governor General's Awards

{{Short description|Canadian literary award}}

The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2,"Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013. and the winners were announced on November 13.[https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/2013/11/13/eleanor_catton_wins_governor_generals_literary_award_for_the_luminaries.html "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries"]. Toronto Star, November 13, 2013. Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.

English

class="wikitable" width="100%"

!width=15%|Category

!width=30%|Winner

!width=55%|Nominated

align="center"| Fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries

|

align="center"| Non-fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Sandra Djwa, A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page

|

  • Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
  • Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
  • Allen Smutylo, The Memory of Water
  • Priscila Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
align="center"| Poetry

|{{blue ribbon}} Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs

|

align="center"| Drama

|{{blue ribbon}} Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays

|

align="center"| Children's literature

|{{blue ribbon}} Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

|

align="center"| Children's illustration

|{{blue ribbon}} Matt James, Northwest Passage

|

align="center"| French to English translation

|{{blue ribbon}} Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs)

|

French

class="wikitable" width="100%"

!width=15%|Category

!width=30%|Winner

!width=55%|Nominated

align="center"| Fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent

|

align="center"| Non-fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Yvon Rivard, Aimer, enseigner

|

align="center"| Poetry

|{{blue ribbon}} René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement

|

align="center"| Drama

|{{blue ribbon}} Fanny Britt, Bienveillance

|

align="center"| Children's literature

|{{blue ribbon}} Geneviève Mativat, À l'ombre de la grande maison

|

align="center"| Children's illustration

|{{blue ribbon}} Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard et moi

|

align="center"| English to French translation

|{{blue ribbon}} Sophie Voillot, L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick, Far to Go)

|

References

{{reflist}}