# 2013 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, and the winners were announced on November 13. Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries | Kenneth Bonert, The Lion Seeker Joseph Boyden, The Orenda Colin McAdam, A Beautiful Truth Shyam Selvadurai, The Hungry Ghosts |
| Non-fiction | Sandra Djwa, A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page | Carolyn Abraham, The Juggler's Children: A Journey into Family, Legend and the Genes that Bind Us Nina Munk, The Idealist: Jeffrey Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty Allen Smutylo, The Memory of Water Priscila Uppal, Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother |
| Poetry | Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs | Austin Clarke, Where the Sun Shines Best Adam Dickinson, The Polymers Don Domanski, Bite Down Little Whisper Russell Thornton, Birds, Metal, Stones & Rain |
| Drama | Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays | Meg Braem, Blood: A Scientific Romance Kate Hewlett, The Swearing Jar Lawrence Jeffery, Frenchtown Joseph Jomo Pierre, Shakespeare's Nigga |
| Children's literature | Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B | Beverley Brenna, The White Bicycle Shane Peacock, Becoming Holmes Jean E. Pendziwol, Once Upon a Northern Night Valerie Sherrard, Counting Back from Nine |
| Children's illustration | Matt James, Northwest Passage | Rachel Berman, Miss Mousie's Blind Date Gary Clement, Oy, Feh, So? Jon Klassen, The Dark Julie Morstad, How To |
| French to English translation | Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs) | Robert Majzels, For Sure (France Daigle, Pour sûr) Rhonda Mullins, And the Birds Rained Down (Jocelyne Saucier, Il pleuvait des oiseaux) George Tombs, Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage (Marcel Trudel, Deux siècles d'esclavage au Québec) Luise von Flotow, The Stalinist's Wife (France Théoret, La femme du stalinien) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent | Sergio Kokis, Culs-de-sac Roger Magini, Ilitch, mort ou vif Marc Séguin, Hollywood Gérald Tougas, Le deuxième train de la nuit |
| Non-fiction | Yvon Rivard, Aimer, enseigner | Alain Deneault, Gouvernance: le management totalitaire Jean-Jacques Pelletier, La fabrique de l'extrême : les pratiques ordinaires de l'excès Dominique Perron, L'Alberta autophage : identités, mythes et discours du pétrole dans l'Ouest canadien Joseph Yvon Thériault, Évangéline : contes d'Amérique |
| Poetry | René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement | Mario Brassard, Le livre clarière Marie-Andrée Gill, Béante Diane Régimbald, L'insensée rayonne Rodney Saint-Éloi, Jacques Roche, je t'écris cette lettre |
| Drama | Fanny Britt, Bienveillance | Michel Marc Bouchard, Christine, la reine-garçon Olivier Choinière, Nom de domaine Véronique Côté, Tout ce qui tombe Érika Tremblay-Roy, Petite vérité inventée |
| Children's literature | Geneviève Mativat, À l'ombre de la grande maison | Camille Bouchard, D'or et de poussière Fanny Britt, Jane, le renard et moi Emmanuelle Caron, Gladys et Vova Lili Chartrand, Le monde fabuleux de Monsieur Fred |
| Children's illustration | Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard et moi | Jacinthe Chevalier, Aujourd'hui, le ciel Marianne Dubuc, Au carnaval des animaux Stéphane Jorisch, Quand je serai grand Rogé, Mingan, mon village |
| English to French translation | Sophie Voillot, L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick, Far to Go) | Rachel Martinez, Les maux d'Ambroise Bukowski (Susin Nielsen, Word Nerd) Daniel Poliquin, Du village à la ville: comment les migrants changent le monde (Doug Saunders, Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World) Hélène Rioux, Le cousin (John Calabro, The Cousin) Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Jamais je ne t'oublierai (Miriam Toews, Swing Low: A Life) |