Canadian literary award
The shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 11,[ 1] and the winners were announced on November 15.[ 2]
English
Category
Winner
Nominated
Fiction
Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers
Non-fiction
Charles Foran , Mordecai: The Life & Times
Nathan M. Greenfield , The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45
Richard Gwyn , Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891
JJ Lee , The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
Andrew Nikiforuk , Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Poetry
Phil Hall , Killdeer
Drama
Erin Shields , If We Were Birds
Children's literature
Christopher Moore , From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
Children's illustration
Cybèle Young , Ten Birds
French to English translation
Donald Winkler , Partita for Glenn Gould (Partita pour Glenn Gould , Georges Leroux )
French
References
External links
English-language awards French-language awards Awards by year