# 2015 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015, and the winners were announced on October 28.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | 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 |
| Non-fiction | Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive | Ted Bishop, The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word David Halton, Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War Michael Harris, Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover Armand Garnet Ruffo, Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird |
| Poetry | Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me | Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent M. Travis Lane, Crossover Patrick Lane, Washita |
| Drama | David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave | Beth Graham, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis, Mahmoud Bryden MacDonald, Odd Ducks Marcus Youssef and James Long, Winners and Losers |
| Children's literature | Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth | Dan Bar-el, Audrey (cow) Darren Groth, Are You Seeing Me? Susin Nielsen, We Are All Made of Molecules Emil Sher, Young Man with Camera |
| Children's illustration | JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers | Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji, Jack, the King of Ashes Kyo Maclear and Marion Arbona, The Good Little Book John Martz, A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories Mélanie Watt, Bug in a Vacuum |
| French to English translation | Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine) | David Scott Hamilton, Captive (Claudine Dumont, Anabiose) Lazer Lederhendler, The Lake (Perrine Leblanc, Malabourg) Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women (Emmanuelle Walter, Sœurs volées: Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada) Donald Winkler, Arvida (Samuel Archibald, Arvida) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Nicolas Dickner, Six degrés de liberté | Françoise de Luca, Sena Marilyne Fortin, La Fabrica Catherine Harton, Traité des peaux Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon |
| Non-fiction | Jean-Philippe Warren, Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l'épée (1848-1906) | Alain Asselin, Jacques Cayouette and Jacques Mathieu, Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada, tome 1 Ying Chen, La lenteur des montagnes Chantal Savoie, Les femmes de lettres canadiennes-françaises au tournant du XXe siècle Patricia Smart, De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan; Se dire, se faire par l'écriture intime |
| Poetry | Joël Pourbaix, Le mal du pays est un art oublié | Martine Audet, Tête première / Dos / Contre dos François Baril Pelletier, Les trésors tamisés Jean-Philippe Dupuis, Langue maternelle René Lapierre, La carte des feux |
| Drama | Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet | Simon Boudreault, En cas de pluie, aucun remboursement Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Jouez, Monsieur Molière! Annick Lefebvre, J'accuse Olivier Sylvestre, La beauté du monde |
| Children's literature | Louis-Philippe Hébert, Marie Réparatrice | Camille Bouchard, Les Forces du désordre Denis Côté, Dessine-moi un martien Roger Des Roches, Boîtamémoire Sandra Dussault, Direction Saint-Creux-des-Meuh-Meuh |
| Children's illustration | André Marois and Patrick Doyon, Le voleur de sandwichs | Jacques Goldstyn, L'arbragan Mireille Levert, Quand j'écris avec mon cœur Mélanie Perreault and Marion Arbona, Rosalie entre chien et chat Renée Robitaille and Philippe Béha, Douze oiseaux |
| English to French translation | Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here) | Christiane Duchesne, Élisabeth dans le pétrin (Susan Glickman, Bernadette in the Doghouse) Catherine Ego, Voisins et ennemis. La Guerre de sécession et l'invention du Canada (John Boyko, Blood and Daring : How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation) Marie Frankland, MxT (Sina Queyras, MxT) Rachel Martinez, Ma vie (racontée malgré moi) par Henry K. Larsen (Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen) |