Canadian literary award
The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2,[ 1] and the winners were announced on November 13.[ 2] Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts .[ 1]
English
Category
Winner
Nominated
Fiction
Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries
Non-fiction
Sandra Djwa , A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
Carolyn Abraham , The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us
Nina Munk , The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty
Allen Smutylo , The Memory of Water
Priscila Uppal , Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
Poetry
Katherena Vermette , North End Love Songs
Drama
Nicolas Billon , Fault Lines: Three Plays
Children's literature
Teresa Toten , The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
Children's illustration
Matt James , Northwest Passage
French to English translation
Donald Winkler , The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu , Les verbes majeurs )
French
Category
Winner
Nominated
Fiction
Stéphanie Pelletier , Quand les guêpes se taisent
Non-fiction
Yvon Rivard , Aimer, enseigner
Poetry
René Lapierre , Pour les désespérés seulement
Drama
Fanny Britt , Bienveillance
Children's literature
Geneviève Mativat , À l'ombre de la grande maison
Children's illustration
Isabelle Arsenault , Jane, le renard et moi
English to French translation
Sophie Voillot , L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick , Far to Go )
References
External links
English-language awards French-language awards Awards by year