2017 Governor General's Awards

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|{{blue ribbon}} Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night

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• Michael Kaan, The Water Beetles
• Alison MacLeod, All the Beloved Ghosts
• Jocelyn Parr, Uncertain Weights and Measures
• Kathleen Winter, Lost in September

|{{blue ribbon}} Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State

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• Sharon Butala, Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
• Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts
• Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational
• Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others

|{{blue ribbon}} Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood

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• Lorna Crozier, What the Soul Doesn't Want
• Nora Gould, Selah
• Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War
• Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between

|{{blue ribbon}} Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm

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• Robert Chafe, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
• Anna Chatterton, Within the Glass
• Michael Healey, 1979
• Kate Hennig, The Virgin Trial

|{{blue ribbon}} Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

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• Alison Hughes, Hit the Ground Running
• Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky
• Allan Stratton, The Way Back Home
• Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined

|{{blue ribbon}} David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone

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• Marie-Louise Gay, Short Stories for Little Monsters
• Paul Harbridge and Matt James, When the Moon Comes
• Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith, Town Is By the Sea
• Jan Thornhill, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk

|{{blue ribbon}} Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme)

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• Katia Grubisic, Brothers (David Clerson, Frères)
• Howard Scott, Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries (Gérard Bouchard, Raison et déraison du mythe)
• Pablo Strauss, The Longest Year (Daniel Grenier, L'année la plus longue)
• W. Donald Wilson, In Search of New Babylon (Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon)

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|{{blue ribbon}} Christian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige[http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/governor-general-literary-awards-winners-2017-1.4381577 "Governor General Literary Awards announced: Joel Thomas Hynes wins top English fiction prize"]. CBC News, November 1, 2017.

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• Virginie Blanchette-Doucet, 117 Nord
• Mylène Bouchard, L'Imparfaite Amitié
• Michael Delisle, Le Palais de la fatigue
• Stéphane Larue, Le Plongeur

|{{blue ribbon}} Serge Bouchard, Les Yeux tristes de mon camion

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• Benoît Côté, Propositions de clarté
• Daniel Grenier, La solitude de l'écrivain de fond
• Nicolas Lévesque, Je sais trop bien ne pas exister
• Ouanessa Younsi, Soigner, aimer

|{{blue ribbon}} Louise Dupré, La Main hantée

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• Jean-Marc Desgent, Strange Fruits
• Annie Lafleur, Bec-de-lièvre
• Judy Quinn, Pas de tombeau pour les lieux
• Serge Patrice Thibodeau, L'Isle Haute en marge de Grand-Pré

|{{blue ribbon}} Sébastien David, Dimanche napalm

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• Nathalie Boisvert, Antigone au printemps
• Emma Haché, Exercice de l'oubli
• Suzanne Lebeau, Trois petites sœurs
• Kevin McCoy, Norge

|{{blue ribbon}} Véronique Drouin, L'importance de Mathilde Poisson

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• Annie Bacon, Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d'une enfant sage
• Jocelyn Boisvert, Les Moustiques
• Roxane Desjardins, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire
• K. Lambert, L'élixir du baron Von Rezine

|{{blue ribbon}} Jacques Goldstyn, Azadah

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• Pascal Blanchet, En voiture! L'Amérique en chemin de fer
• Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Louis parmi les spectres
• Christiane Duchesne and Marion Arbona, Fred Petitchatminou
• Renée Robitaille and Slavka Kolesar, La légende de Carcajou

|{{blue ribbon}} Daniel Poliquin, Un barbare en Chine nouvelle (Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China)

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• Carole Noël and Marianne Noël-Allen, Le Sans-papiers (Lawrence Hill, The Illegal)
• Paule Noyart, La disparition d'Heinrich Schlögel (Martha Baillie, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel)
• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Premières lueurs : mon combat contre le trouble de stress post-traumatique (Roméo Dallaire, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD)
• Sophie Voillot, Le sous-majordome (Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor)