Canadian literary award
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 .
Category
Winner
Nominated
Fiction
Norma Dunning , Tainna
Non-fiction
Sadiqa de Meijer , alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language
Poetry
Tolu Oloruntoba , The Junta of Happenstance
Drama
Hannah Moscovitch , Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes
Children's literature
Philippa Dowding , Firefly
Children's illustration
David A. Robertson and Julie Flett , On the Trapline
French to English translation
Erín Moure , This Radiant Life (Chantal Neveu , La vie radieuse )
Helge Dascher and Rob Aspinall , Paul at Home (Michel Rabagliati , Paul à la maison )
Peter Feldstein , People, State, and War Under the French Regime in Canada (Louise Dechêne , Le Peuple, lʼÉtat et la Guerre au Canada sous le Régime français )
Katia Grubisic , A Cemetery for Bees (Alina Dumitrescu , Le cimetière des abeilles )
Susan Ouriou , The Lover, the Lake (Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau , L'amant du lac )
Category
Winner
Nominated
Fiction
Fanny Britt , Faire les sucres
Non-fiction
Serge Bouchard and Mark Fortier , Du diesel dans les veines
Poetry
Tania Langlais , Pendant que Perceval tombait
Drama
Mishka Lavigne , Copeaux
Children's literature
Jean-François Sénéchal , Les Avenues
Children's illustration
Mario Brassard and Gérard DuBois , À qui appartiennent les nuages ?
English to French translation
Marie Frankland , Poèmes 1938-1984 (Elizabeth Smart , The Collected Poems )
Dominique Fortier , La ballade de Baby suivi de Sagesse de l'absurde (Heather O'Neill , Lullabies for Little Criminals and Wisdom in Nonsense )
Daniel Grenier , La Course de Rose (Dawn Dumont , Rose's Run )
Colette St-Hilaire , Toots fait la Shiva, avenue Minto (Erín Moure , Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots )
Madeleine Stratford , Petits marronnages (Kaie Kellough , Dominoes at the Crossroads )
English-language awards French-language awards Awards by year