# 2023 Governor General's Awards

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

## English

| 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) |

## French

| 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) |