2021 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2021 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 14, 2021,[1] and the winners were announced on November 17.[2] The 2021 awards returned to their traditional scheduling and presentation in the fall of the year, following the postponement of the 2020 Governor General's Awards to spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.

English

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Norma Dunning, Tainna
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Sadiqa de Meijer, alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language
Poetry Blue ribbon Tolu Oloruntoba, The Junta of Happenstance
Drama Blue ribbon Hannah Moscovitch, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Children's literature Blue ribbon Philippa Dowding, Firefly
Children's illustration Blue ribbon David A. Robertson and Julie Flett, On the Trapline
French to English translation Blue ribbon Erín Moure, This Radiant Life (Chantal Neveu, La vie radieuse)

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Fanny Britt, Faire les sucres
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Serge Bouchard and Mark Fortier, Du diesel dans les veines
Poetry Blue ribbon Tania Langlais, Pendant que Perceval tombait
Drama Blue ribbon Mishka Lavigne, Copeaux
Children's literature Blue ribbon Jean-François Sénéchal, Les Avenues
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Mario Brassard and Gérard DuBois, À qui appartiennent les nuages ?
English to French translation Blue ribbon Marie Frankland, Poèmes 1938-1984 (Elizabeth Smart, The Collected Poems)

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