Governor General's Award for English-language fiction
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The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English. Beginning 1987[1] it is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. Originally presented by the Canadian Authors Association,[clarification needed] the Governor General's Awards program became a project of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1959.[2]
The program was created in 1937 and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards.[1]
The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Omitted only for 1981, the advance shortlist has numbered three to six; from 1997, always five.
Winners and nominees, English-language fiction
1930s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Bertram Brooker | Think of the Earth |
| 1937 | Laura Salverson | The Dark Weaver |
| 1938 | Gwethalyn Graham | Swiss Sonata |
| 1939 | Franklin D. McDowell | The Champlain Road |
1940s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | Ringuet | Thirty Acres |
| 1941 | Alan Sullivan | Three Came to Ville Marie |
| 1942 | G. Herbert Sallans | Little Man |
| 1943 | Thomas H. Raddall | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek |
| 1944 | Gwethalyn Graham | Earth and High Heaven |
| 1945 | Hugh MacLennan | Two Solitudes |
| 1946 | Winifred Bambrick | Continental Revue |
| 1947 | Gabrielle Roy | The Tin Flute |
| 1948 | Hugh MacLennan | The Precipice |
| 1949 | Philip Child | Mr. Ames Against Time |
1950s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Germaine Guèvremont | The Outlander |
| 1951 | Morley Callaghan | The Loved and the Lost |
| 1952 | David Walker | The Pillar |
| 1953 | David Walker | Digby |
| 1954 | Igor Gouzenko | The Fall of a Titan |
| 1955 | Lionel Shapiro | The Sixth of June |
| 1956 | Adele Wiseman | The Sacrifice |
| 1957 | Gabrielle Roy | Street of Riches |
| 1958 | Colin McDougall | Execution |
| 1959 | Hugh MacLennan | The Watch That Ends the Night |
1960s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Brian Moore | The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
| 1961 | Malcolm Lowry | Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place |
| 1962 | Kildare Dobbs | Running to Paradise |
| 1963 | Hugh Garner | Hugh Garner's Best Stories |
| 1964 | Douglas LePan | The Deserter |
| 1965 | No award presented | |
| 1966 | Margaret Laurence | A Jest of God |
| 1967 | No award presented | |
| 1968 | Alice Munro | Dance of the Happy Shades |
| 1969 | Robert Kroetsch | The Studhorse Man |
1970s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | Dave Godfrey | The New Ancestors |
| 1971 | Mordecai Richler | St. Urbain's Horseman |
| 1972 | Robertson Davies | The Manticore |
| 1973 | Rudy Wiebe | The Temptations of Big Bear |
| 1974 | Margaret Laurence | The Diviners |
| 1975 | Brian Moore | The Great Victorian Collection |
| 1976 | Marian Engel | Bear |
| 1977 | Timothy Findley | The Wars |
| 1978 | Alice Munro | Who Do You Think You Are? |
| 1979 | Jack Hodgins | The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne |
| Margaret Atwood | Life Before Man | |
| Matt Cohen | The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone |
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Dianne Warren | Cool Water |
| Sandra Birdsell | Waiting for Joe | |
| Emma Donoghue | Room | |
| Drew Hayden Taylor | Motorcycles & Sweetgrass | |
| Kathleen Winter | Annabel | |
| 2011 | Patrick deWitt | The Sisters Brothers |
| David Bezmozgis | The Free World | |
| Esi Edugyan | Half-Blood Blues | |
| Marina Endicott | The Little Shadow | |
| Alexi Zentner | Touch | |
| 2012 | Linda Spalding | The Purchase |
| Tamas Dobozy | Siege 13 | |
| Robert Hough | Dr. Brinkley's Tower | |
| Vincent Lam | The Headmaster's Wager | |
| Carrie Snyder | The Juliet Stories | |
| 2013[3] | Eleanor Catton[4] | The Luminaries[4] |
| Kenneth Bonert | The Lion Seeker | |
| Joseph Boyden | The Orenda | |
| Colin McAdam | A Beautiful Truth | |
| Shyam Selvadurai | The Hungry Ghosts | |
| 2014[5] | Thomas King | The Back of the Turtle |
| Michael Crummey | Sweetland | |
| Bill Gaston | Juliet Was a Surprise | |
| Claire Holden Rothman | My October | |
| Joan Thomas | The Opening Sky | |
| 2015 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | Daddy Lenin and Other Stories |
| Kate Cayley | How You Were Born | |
| Rachel Cusk | Outline | |
| Helen Humphreys | The Evening Chorus | |
| Clifford Jackman | The Winter Family |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-18.
- ↑ "Governor General's Literary Awards". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2015-08-18.
- ↑ "Governor General Literary Award finalists announced". Vancouver Sun, October 2, 2013.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Eleanor Catton wins Governor General’s Literary Award for The Luminaries". Toronto Star, November 13, 2013.
- ↑ "Thomas King wins Governor General’s award for fiction". The Globe and Mail, November 18, 2014.
