Governor General's Literary Awards 2024

by Canada Council for the Arts

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25 books

The Canada Council for the Arts is responsible for administering and promoting the Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks). The Awards promote literature from Canada, recognizing the most notable English-language and French-language books.

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See the source list and commentary at ggbooks.ca

Fiction

Winner

Empty Spaces

Jordan Abel, 2024

Finalists

Code Noir

Canisia Lubrin, 2024

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

Kent Monkman, Gisèle Gordon, 2023

Her Body Among Animals

Paola Ferrante, 2023

Naniki

Oonya Kempadoo, 2024

Drama

Winner

There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death Or, the Born-Again Crow

Caleigh Crow, 2023

Finalists

I Forgive You

Scott Jones, Robert Chafe, 2024

New

Pamela Mala Sinha, 2023

The Green Line خطّ التماس

Makram Ayache, 2024

Shorelines

Mishka LaVigne, 2023

Non-fiction

Winner

Wînipêk

Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

Niigaan Sinclair, 2024

Finalists

Crooked Teeth

A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

Danny Ramadan, 2024

Becoming a Matriarch

Helen Knott, 2024

The Walls Have Eyes

Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Petra Molnar, 2024

The Age of Insecurity

Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

Astra Taylor, 2023

Young People’s Literature – Text

Winner

Crash Landing

Li Charmaine Anne, 2024

Finalists

Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams

Shari Green, 2024

A Crane Among Wolves: A Heart-Pounding Tale of Romance and Court Politics - For Fans of Historical K-Dramas

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix

Cherie Dimaline, 2023

Mortified

Kristy Jackson, 2024

Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books

Winner

Skating Wild on an Inland Sea

Jean E. Pendziwol, 2023

Finalists

One Giant Leap

I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf

Danielle Daniel, 2024

The Gulf

Adam de Souza, 2024

Do You Remember?

Sydney Smith, 2023