The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015,[1] and the winners were announced on October 28.
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Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
Fiction |
Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories |
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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
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Poetry |
Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me |
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Drama |
David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave |
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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Drama |
Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet |
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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
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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
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English to French translation |
Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here) |
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