The shortlisted nominees for the 2023 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 25, 2023,^[1] and the winners were announced on November 8.^[2]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis	Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter Janika Oza, A History of Burning Iain Reid, We Spread Kai Thomas, In the Upper Country
Non-fiction	Kyo Maclear, Unearthing	Holly Hogan, Message in a Bottle Monia Mazigh, Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f) Harrison Mooney, Invisible Boy Angela Sterritt, Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
Poetry	Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy	Robert Bringhurst, The Ridge Conor Kerr, Old Gods Amy Ching-Yan Lam, Baby Book Susan Musgrave, Exculpatory Lilies
Drama	Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It, A Radical Retelling	Darla Contois, The War Being Waged Hiro Kanagawa, Forgiveness Suvendrini Lena, The Enchanted Loom Jordan Tannahill, Is My Microphone On?
Children's literature	Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything	Michelle Kadarusman, Berani Zoulfa Katouh, As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow Iain Lawrence, Fire on Headless Mountain Kim Spencer, Weird Rules to Follow
Children's illustration	Jack Wong, When You Can Swim	Monica Arnaldo, Mr. S Jon Klassen, The Skull Buffy Sainte-Marie and Julie Flett, Still This Love Goes On Nancy Vo, Boobies
French to English translation	Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (Éric Dupont, La Logeuse)	Arielle Aaronson, Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees (Paul Tom, Seuls) D. M. Bradford, House Within a House (Nicholas Dawson, Désormais, ma demeure) Émilie Monnet, Okinum (her own play of the same name) Susan Ouriou, Kukum (Michel Jean, Kukum)

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Marie Hélène Poitras, Galumpf	David Clerson, Mon fils ne revint que sept jours Brigitte Haentjens, Sombre est la nuit Carole Labarre, Lʼor des mélèzes Stéfani Meunier, Une carte postale de lʼocéan
Non-fiction	Philippe Bernier Arcand, Faux rebelles : Les dérives du politiquement incorrect	Martine Béland, Mégaptère Frédéric Bérard, Jʼaccuse les tortionnaires dʼOmar Khadr Francis Dupuis-Déri, Panique à l'Université Dahlia Namian, La société de provocation
Poetry	Rita Mestokosho, Atikᵁ utei. Le cœur du caribou	Virginie Chaloux-Gendron, La fabrique du noir Louise Dupré, Exercices de joie Sebastián Ibarra Gutiérrez, À terre ouverte Virginie Savard, Les deuils transparents
Drama	Mathieu Gosselin, Gros gars	Martin Bellemare, Charlie, du vent derrière le nombril Rébecca Déraspe, Les Glaces Nathalie Doummar, Mama Soleil Launière, Akuteu
Children's literature	Lou Beauchesne, Linoubliable	J.L. Blanchard, Zipolaris Tome 3 : La malédiction de Zangra Sylvie Drapeau, Escarpolette Mylène Goupil, Mélie quelque part au milieu Jean-Christophe Réhel, Le plancher de la lune
Children's illustration	Samuel Larochelle and Ève Patenaude, Le plus petit sauveur du monde	Geneviève Bigué, Parfois les lacs brûlent Iris Boudreau, Gervais et Conrad Boucar Diouf and François Thisdale, Le Bourlingueur de Matungoua Maude Nepveu-Villeneuve and Agathe Bray-Bourret, Je t'écris de mon lit
English to French translation	Catherine Ego, Dans lʼombre du soleil: Réflexions sur la race et les récits (Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling)	Dominique Fortier, Nʼayons pas peur du ciel (Emma Hooper, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky) Marie Frankland, Tout est bien (Mona Awad, All's Well) Luba Markovskaia, Père fictif (Joe Ollmann, Fictional Father) Madeleine Stratford, soufrelangue (Rebecca Salazar, sulphurtongue)

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