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Governor General's Awards Posts

The Chat with 2022 Governor General's Award Winner Eli Baxter

by Trevor Corkum

Eli Baxter is this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award winner for Non-fiction for his memoir Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth (McGill-Queens …

The Chat with 2022 Governor General's Award Winner Jen Ferguson

by Trevor Corkum

Author Jen Ferguson is the 2022 winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature (Text), for her YA novel The Summer …

The Chat with 2022 Governor General's Award winner Judith Weisz Woodsworth

by Trevor Corkum

Judith Weisz Woodsworth is the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award winner for Translation (French-English) for her translation of Pierre Anctil’s …

The Chat with 2022 Governor General's Award Winners Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi

by Trevor Corkum

Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi share this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Young People’s Literature (Illustrated Books) for The Sour …

Enter for a chance to WIN all seven English-language winners of the 2022 Governor General's Awards!

by Kiley Turner

How would you feel about opening your door sometime soon to see SEVEN gorgeous, award-winning books on your doorstep? Of course you would feel EXCELLENT! …

The Chat with 2022 Governor General's Award Winner Dorothy Dittrich

by Trevor Corkum

Playwright Dorothy Dittrich is this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award winner for Drama for her play The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key (Talonbooks). …

The Chat with 2022 Governor General's Award Winner Annick MacAskill

by Trevor Corkum

Halifax writer Annick MacAskill has won this year’s Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry for her collection Shadow Blight (Gaspereau Press). …

The Chat with Governor General's Award Winner Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith is this year’s Governor General’s Award winner for Young People’s Literature (Illustrated Book) for Small in the City, published by …

The Chat with Governor General's Literary Award Winner Don Gillmor

The winner of the 2019 Governor General’s Award for Nonfiction is Don Gillmor for his memoir To The River: Losing My Brother.

The Chat with Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott

The 2018 Governor General’s Award for Translation was awarded to the team of Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott for Descent into Night (Mawenzi House), …

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