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2024 Governor General’s Awards Finalists

The Canada Council for the Arts is pleased to announce the 2024 finalists in the Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks). These prestigious awards celebrate works published in Canada, in both official languages, across seven categories, and include books for readers of all ages. English finalists are below.

by Kerry Clare

Code Noir

by (author) Canisia Lubrin

Empty Spaces

by (author) Jordan Abel

The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1

A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

by (author) Kent Monkman & Gisèle Gordon

Her Body Among Animals

by (author) Paola Ferrante

The Work

by (author) Bren Simmers

Precedented Parroting

by (author) Barbara Tran

The All + Flesh

Poems

by (author) Brandi Bird

Sonnets from a Cell

by (author) Bradley Peters

Scientific Marvel

Poems

by (author) Chimwemwe Undi

I Forgive You

by (author) Scott Jones & Robert Chafe

New

by (author) Pamela Mala Sinha

The Green Line | خطّ التماس

by (author) Makram Ayache
translated by Hiba Sleiman

Shorelines

by (author) Mishka Lavigne

There is Violence and There is Righteous Violence and There is Death or, The Born-Again Crow

by (author) Caleigh Crow

Crooked Teeth

A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir

by (author) Danny Ramadan

Becoming a Matriarch

A Memoir

by (author) Helen Knott

The Age of Insecurity

Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

by (author) Astra Taylor

Wînipêk

Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre

by (author) Niigaan Sinclair

Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams

by (author) Shari Green

A Crane Among Wolves

by (author) June Hur

Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix

by (author) Cherie Dimaline

Crash Landing

by (author) Li Charmaine Anne

Mortified

by (author) Kristy Jackson
illustrated by Rhael McGregor

I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf

by (author) Danielle Daniel
illustrated by Matt James

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