2015 Governor General's Awards

{{Short description|Canadian literary award}}

The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015,[https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/governor-generals-literary-awards-announces-finalists/article26696187/ "Governor-General’s Literary Awards announces finalists"]. The Globe and Mail, October 7, 2014. and the winners were announced on October 28.

English

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align="center"| Fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories

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align="center"| Non-fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive

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  • 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
align="center"| Poetry

|{{blue ribbon}} Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me

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align="center"| Drama

|{{blue ribbon}} David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave

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align="center"| Children's literature

|{{blue ribbon}} Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth

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align="center"| Children's illustration

|{{blue ribbon}} JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers

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align="center"| French to English translation

|{{blue ribbon}} Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine)

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French

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align="center"| Fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Nicolas Dickner, Six degrés de liberté

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align="center"| Non-fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Jean-Philippe Warren, Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l'épée (1848-1906)

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align="center"| Poetry

|{{blue ribbon}} Joël Pourbaix, Le mal du pays est un art oublié

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align="center"| Drama

|{{blue ribbon}} Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet

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align="center"| Children's literature

|{{blue ribbon}} Louis-Philippe Hébert, Marie Réparatrice

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align="center"| Children's illustration

|{{blue ribbon}} André Marois and Patrick Doyon, Le voleur de sandwichs

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align="center"| English to French translation

|{{blue ribbon}} Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)

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