# 2018 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018, and the winners were announced on October 30.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Sarah Henstra, The Red Word | Paige Cooper, Zolitude Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society Miriam Toews, Women Talking Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed |
| Non-fiction | Darrel J. McLeod, Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age | Carys Cragg, Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father Aida Edemariam, The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries Abu Bakr Al-Rabeeah and Winnie Yeung, Homes: A Refugee Story |
| Poetry | Cecily Nicholson, Wayside Sang | Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk Joshua Mensch, Because: A Lyric Memoir Jason Stefanik, Night Became Years |
| Drama | Jordan Tannahill, Botticelli in the Fire & Sunday in Sodom | Keith Barker, This Is How We Got Here Anna Chatterton, Evalyn Parry and Karin Randoja, Gertrude and Alice Anosh Irani, The Men in White Erin Shields, Paradise Lost |
| Children's literature | Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster | Christopher Paul Curtis, The Journey of Little Charlie Janice Lynn Mather, Learning to Breathe Lindsay Mattick and Josh Greenhut, Winnie's Great War Heather Smith, Ebb & Flow |
| Children's illustration | Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue | The Fan Brothers, Ocean Meets Sky Shauntay Grant and Eva Campbell, Africville Wab Kinew and Joe Morse, Go Show the World: A Celebration of Indigenous Heroes Werner Zimmermann, At the Pond |
| French to English translation | Phyllis Aronoff and Howard Scott, Descent Into Night (Edem Awumey, Explication de la nuit) | Vivian Felsen, Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu (Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896-1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu) Aleshia Jensen, Explosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination (Mathieu Poulin, Des explosions) Peter McCambridge, Songs for the Cold of Heart (Éric Dupont, La fiancée américaine) Rhonda Mullins, Little Beast (Julie Demers, Barbe) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Karoline Georges, De synthèse | Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse Maxime Raymond Bock, Les noyades secondaires Naomi Fontaine, Manikanetish Olivier Sylvestre, Noms fictifs |
| Non-fiction | Frédérick Lavoie, Avant l’après : voyages à Cuba avec George Orwell | Pierre Anctil, Histoire des juifs du Québec Denys Delâge and Jean-Philippe Warren, Le piège de la liberté : les peuples autochtones dans l’engrenage des régimes coloniaux Gabrielle Giasson-Dulude, Les chants du mime : en compagnie d’Étienne Decroux Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny, Mégantic |
| Poetry | Michaël Trahan, La raison des fleurs | Daria Colonna, Ne faites pas honte à votre siècle Roxane Desjardins, Le revers Catherine Lalonde, La dévoration des fées France Théoret, Cruauté du jeu |
| Drama | Anne-Marie Olivier, Venir au monde | Christine Beaulieu, J'aime Hydro Steve Gagnon, La montagne blanche Guillaume Lapierre-Desnoyers, Invisibles Michel Tremblay, Enfant insignifiant! |
| Children's literature | Mario Brassard, Ferdinand F., 81 ans, chenille | Jonathan Bécotte, Maman veut partir Jocelyn Boisvert, Un dernier songe avant le grand sommeil Camille Bouchard, 13000 ans et des poussières Brigitte Vaillancourt, Les marées |
| Children's illustration | Marianne Dubuc, Le chemin de la montagne | Marianne Ferrer and India Desjardins, Une histoire de cancer qui finit bien Gabriella Gendreau and Nahid Kazemi, Les mots d'Eunice Jacques Goldstyn, Jules et Jim : frères d’armes Nicole Testa and Annie Boulanger, Lili Macaroni : je suis comme je suis! |
| English to French translation | Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le monde selon Barney (Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version) | Éric Fontaine, Sweetland (Michael Crummey, Sweetland) Daniel Grenier and William S. Messier, De l’utilité de l’ennui : textes de balle (Andrew Forbes, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays) Laurence Gough, Naissances (Kate Cayley, How You Were Born) Catherine Leroux, Le saint patron des merveilles (Mark Frutkin, Fabrizio's Return) |