# 2016 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016, and the winners were announced on October 25.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing | Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates Anosh Irani, The Parcel Kerry Lee Powell, Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush Katherena Vermette, The Break |
| Non-fiction | Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905 | Kamal Al-Solaylee, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone) Teva Harrison, In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer Harold R. Johnson, Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours) Marc Raboy, Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World |
| Poetry | Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late | Joe Denham, Regeneration Machine Susan Holbrook, Throaty Wipes Garry Thomas Morse, Prairie Harbour Rachel Rose, Marry & Burn |
| Drama | Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl | Brad Fraser, Kill Me Now Donna-Michelle St. Bernard, A Man A Fish Jordan Tannahill, Concord Floral Mary Vingoe, Refuge |
| Children's literature | Martine Leavitt, Calvin | Mikaela Everett, The Unquiet E. K. Johnston, A Thousand Nights Trilby Kent, Once, in a Town Called Moth Tim Wynne-Jones, The Emperor of Any Place |
| Children's illustration | Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden | Jo Ellen Bogart and Sydney Smith, The White Cat and the Monk Lucy Ruth Cummins, A Hungry Lion or a Dwindling Assortment of Animals Mireille Messier and Pierre Pratt, The Branch Esmé Shapiro, Ooko |
| French to English translation | Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen) | Rhonda Mullins, Guano (Louis Carmain, Guano) Neil Smith, The Goddess of Fireflies (Geneviève Pettersen, La déesse des mouches à feu) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, La femme qui fuit Hugues Corriveau, Les Enfants de Liverpool Martine Delvaux, Blanc dehors Daniel Grenier, L'Année la plus longue |
| Non-fiction | Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone | André Habib, La main gauche de Jean-Pierre Léaud Michel Morin, Être et ne pas être Yvon Rivard, Exercices d'amitié Louise Warren, La vie flottante |
| Poetry | Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer | Louise Bouchard, Personne et le soleil Antoine Dumas, Au monde inventaire Pierre Nepveu, La dureté des matières et de l'eau Rodney Saint-Éloi, Je suis la fille du baobab brûlé |
| Drama | Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre | Hervé Bouchard, Le faux pas de l'actrice dans sa traîne Michel Marc Bouchard, La divine illusion Sébastien David, Les haut-parleurs Olivier Kemeid, Five Kings : l'histoire de notre chute |
| Children's literature | François Gilbert, Hare Krishna | Camille Bouchard, Nouvelle-Orléans Mario Brassard, Quand hurle la nuit Amélie Dumoulin, Fé M Fé Patrick Isabelle, Camille |
| Children's illustration | Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune | Jules Asselin and Ninon Pelletier, Le mystère des billes d'or Simon Boulerice and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Florence et Léon Andrée Poulin and Marie Lafrance, Deux garçons et un secret Yayo, Pikiq |
| English to French translation | Catherine Ego, La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone (James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains) | Christophe Bernard, Les hautes montagnes du Portugal (Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal) Daniel Poliquin, Le grand retour : le réveil autochtone (John Ralston Saul, The Comeback) Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Joshua (Mordecai Richler, Joshua Then and Now) Madeleine Stratford, Elle nage (Marianne Apostolides, Swim) |