# 2024 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2024 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 8, 2024, and the winners were announced on November 13.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Jordan Abel, Empty Spaces | Paola Ferrante, Her Body Among Animals Oonya Kempadoo, Naniki Canisia Lubrin, Code Noir Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon, The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island |
| Non-fiction | Niigaan Sinclair, Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre | Helen Knott, Becoming a Matriarch Petra Molnar, The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Danny Ramadan, Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir Astra Taylor, The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart |
| Poetry | Chimwemwe Undi, Scientific Marvel | Brandi Bird, The All + Flesh Bradley Peters, Sonnets from a Cell Bren Simmers, The Work Barbara Tran, Precedented Parenting |
| Drama | Caleigh Crow, There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow | Makram Ayache, The Green Line Scott Jones and Robert Chafe, I Forgive You Mishka Lavigne, Shorelines Pamela Mala Sinha, New |
| Children's literature | Li Charmaine Anne, Crash Landing | Cherie Dimaline, Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix Shari Green, Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams June Hur, A Crane Among Wolves Kristy Jackson, Mortified |
| Children's illustration | Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea | Danielle Daniel and Matt James, I'm Afraid, Said the Leaf Adam de Souza, The Gulf Thao Lam, One Giant Leap Sydney Smith, Do You Remember? |
| French to English translation | Katia Grubisic, Nights Too Short to Dance (Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix) | Melissa Bull, Morel (Maxime Raymond Bock, Morel) Aleshia Jensen, So Long Sad Love (Mirion Malle, Adieu triste amour) Lazer Lederhendler, The Hollow Beast (Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse) Aimee Wall, Sadie X (Clara Dupuis-Morency, Sadie X) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Steve Poutré, Lait cru | Pascale Beauregard, Muette Louis-Daniel Godin, Le Compte est bon Emmanuelle Pierrot, La version qui n’intéresse personne Mathieu Rolland, De grandes personnes |
| Non-fiction | Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau, Hors jeu : Chronique culturelle et féministe sur l’industrie du sport professionnel | Geneviève Boudreau, Une abeille suffit : Carnet d’observation d’un jardin urbain Léa Clermont-Dion, Porter plainte Jérôme Cotte, Oser l’humour éthique : De Socrate à Virginie Fortin Stanley Péan, Noir satin |
| Poetry | Névé Dumas, poème dégénéré | Jonas Fortier, L'Air fou Annie Landreville, Les couteaux dans ma gorge ne sont pas des fruits de mer Olivier Leroux-Picard, Soleil sans heures Emmanuel Simard, Lettres au ciel blanc |
| Drama | Sarah Berthiaume, Wollstonecraft | Olivier Choinière, La dernière cassette : Un portrait d’André Brassard Isabelle Hubert, Rose Geneviève Labelle and Mélodie Noël Rousseau, Ciseaux Johanne Parent, Ornithorynques |
| Children's literature | Stéfani Meunier, Une bulle en dehors du temps | Moira-Uashteskun Bacon, Envole-toi, Mikun Dominique Chicoine, Les quatre vérités Marc-André Dufour-Labbé, Carreauté Kid Jean-Guy Forget and Mélodie Bujold-Henri, Déménager au ciel |
| Children's illustration | Ovila Fontaine and Charlotte Parent, Le premier arbre de Noël | Marie-Andrée Arsenault and Dominique Leroux, Le fil d'Alphée Iris Boudreau and Richard Écrapou, Margot veut une moustache Marianne Ferrer, Jour d’orage Caroline Merola, Histoires fantastiques (et peut-être vraies) |
| English to French translation | Éric Fontaine, Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage (Philip Lee, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River) | Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau, Mourir pour la cause : Révolution dans le Québec des années 1960 (Chris Oliveros, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? Revolution in 1960s Quebec) Daniel Grenier, Charlie Muskrat (Harold R. Johnson, Charlie Muskrat) Madeleine Stratford, Cours vers le danger (Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory) Sophie Voillot, La messagère (Thomas Wharton, The Book of Rain) |