Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

The Governor General's Award for English-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in English.^[1] It is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. The awards was created by the Canadian Authors Association in partnership with Lord Tweedsmuir in 1936. In 1959, the award became part of the Governor General's Awards program at the Canada Council for the Arts in 1959.^[1] The age requirement is 18 and up.

The program was created in 1937 by the Canadian Authors Association and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards.^[1] Administration of the awards was transferred to the Canada Council in 1959.^[1]

The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Omitted only for 1981, the advance shortlist has numbered three to six; from 1997, always five.

Winners and nominees

1930s

Year	Author	Title	Ref
1936	Bertram Brooker	Think of the Earth	[2]
1937	Laura G. Salverson	The Dark Weaver	[3]
1938	Gwethalyn Graham	Swiss Sonata	[4]
1939	Franklin D. McDowell	The Champlain Road	[5]

1940s

Year	Author	Title	Ref
1940	Ringuet	Thirty Acres	[6]
1941	Alan Sullivan	Three Came to Ville Marie	[7]
1942	G. Herbert Sallans	Little Man	[8]
1943	Thomas H. Raddall	The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek	[9]
1944	Gwethalyn Graham	Earth and High Heaven	[10]
1945	Hugh MacLennan	Two Solitudes	[11]
1946	Winifred Bambrick	Continental Revue	[12]
1947	Gabrielle Roy	The Tin Flute	[13]
1948	Hugh MacLennan	The Precipice	[14]
1949	Philip Child	Mr. Ames Against Time	[15]

1950s

Year	Author	Title	Ref
1950	Germaine Guèvremont	The Outlander	[16]
1951	Morley Callaghan	The Loved and the Lost	[17]
1952	David Walker	The Pillar	[18]
1953	David Walker	Digby	[19]
1954	Igor Gouzenko	The Fall of a Titan	[20]
1955	Lionel Shapiro	The Sixth of June	[21]
1956	Adele Wiseman	The Sacrifice	[22]
1957	Gabrielle Roy	Street of Riches	[23]
1958	Colin McDougall	Execution	[24]
1959	Hugh MacLennan	The Watch That Ends the Night	[25]

1960s

Year	Author	Title	Ref
1960	Brian Moore	The Luck of Ginger Coffey	[26]
1961	Malcolm Lowry	Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place	[27]
1962	Kildare Dobbs	Running to Paradise	[28]
1963	Hugh Garner	Hugh Garner's Best Stories	[29]
1964	Douglas LePan	The Deserter	[30]
1965	No award presented		[31]
1966	Margaret Laurence	A Jest of God	[32]
1967	No award presented		[33]
1968	Alice Munro	Dance of the Happy Shades	[34]
	Mordecai Richler	Cocksure
1969	Robert Kroetsch	The Studhorse Man	[35]

1970s

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1970	Dave Godfrey	The New Ancestors	[36]
1971	Mordecai Richler	St. Urbain's Horseman	[37]
1972	Robertson Davies	The Manticore	[38]
1973	Rudy Wiebe	The Temptations of Big Bear	[39]
1974	Margaret Laurence	The Diviners	[40]
1975	Brian Moore	The Great Victorian Collection	[41]
1976	Marian Engel	Bear	[42]
1977	Timothy Findley	The Wars	[43]
1978	Alice Munro	Who Do You Think You Are?	[44]
1979	Jack Hodgins	The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne	[45]
	Margaret Atwood	Life Before Man	[46]
	Matt Cohen	The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone

1980s

Year	Author	Title	Ref
1980	George Bowering	Burning Water	[47]
	Susan Musgrave	The Charcoal Burners	[48]
	Leon Rooke	Fat Woman
1981	Mavis Gallant	Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories	[49]
1982	Guy Vanderhaeghe	Man Descending	[50]
	Alice Munro	The Moons of Jupiter	[51]
	Chris Scott	Antichthon
1983	Leon Rooke	Shakespeare's Dog	[52]
	Philip Kreiner	People Like Us in a Place Like This	[53]
	H. R. Percy	Painted Ladies
	Susan Swan	The Biggest Modern Woman of the World
1984	Josef Skvorecky	The Engineer of Human Souls	[54]
	Timothy Findley	Not Wanted on the Voyage	[55]
	Susan Kerslake	The Book of Fears
	Audrey Thomas	Intertidal Life
1985	Margaret Atwood	The Handmaid's Tale	[56]
	Sharon Butala	Queen of the Headaches	[57]
	Keath Fraser	Foreign Affairs
	David Adams Richards	Road to the Stilt House
1986	Alice Munro	The Progress of Love	[58]
	Lois Braun	A Stone Watermelon	[59]
	John Metcalf	Adult Entertainment
	Aritha van Herk	No Fixed Address
1987	M. T. Kelly	A Dream Like Mine	[60]
	David Gurr	The Ring Master	[61]
	Rohinton Mistry	Tales from Firozsha Baag
	Michael Ondaatje	In the Skin of a Lion
	Carol Shields	Swann: A Mystery
1988	David Adams Richards	Nights Below Station Street	[62]
	Margaret Atwood	Cat's Eye	[63]
	Joan Clark	The Victory of Geraldine Gull
	Mark Frutkin	Atmospheres Apollinaire
	Kenneth Radu	The Cost of Living
1989	Paul Quarrington	Whale Music	[64]
	Ann Copeland	The Golden Thread	[65]
	Helen Weinzweig	A View from the Roof

1990s

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
1990	Nino Ricci	Lives of the Saints	[66]
	Sky Lee	Disappearing Moon Café	[67]
	Alice Munro	Friend of My Youth
	Leslie Hall Pinder	On Double Tracks
	Diane Schoemperlen	Man of My Dreams
1991	Rohinton Mistry	Such a Long Journey	[68]
	Margaret Atwood	Wilderness Tips	[69]
	Don Dickinson	Blue Husbands
	Douglas Glover	A Guide to Animal Behaviour
	Terry Griggs	Quickening
1992	Michael Ondaatje	The English Patient	[70]
	Sandra Birdsell	The Chrome Suite	[71]
	Archie Crail	The Bonus Deal
	John Steffler	The Afterlife of George Cartwright
	Sheila Watson	Deep Hollow Creek
1993	Carol Shields	The Stone Diaries	[72]
	Caroline Adderson	Bad Imaginings	[73]
	Thomas King	Green Grass, Running Water
	David Adams Richards	For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
	Carol Windley	Visible Light
1994	Rudy Wiebe	A Discovery of Strangers	[74]
	Margaret Atwood	The Robber Bride	[75]
	Donna McFarlane	Division of Surgery
	Alice Munro	Open Secrets
	Russell Smith	How Insensitive
1995	Greg Hollingshead	The Roaring Girl	[76]
	Diana Atkinson	Highways and Dancehalls	[77]
	Barbara Gowdy	Mister Sandman
	Julie Keith	The Jaguar Temple
	Richard B. Wright	The Age of Longing
1996	Guy Vanderhaeghe	The Englishman's Boy	[78]
	Margaret Atwood	Alias Grace	[79]
	Elisabeth Harvor	Let Me Be the One
	Janice Kulyk Keefer	The Green Library
	Cordelia Strube	Teaching Pigs to Sing
	Audrey Thomas	Coming Down from Wa
1997	Jane Urquhart	The Underpainter	[80]
	Sandra Birdsell	The Two-Headed Calf	[81]
	Matt Cohen	Last Seen
	Elizabeth Hay	Small Change
	Eric McCormack	First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
1998	Diane Schoemperlen	Forms of Devotion	[82]
	Lynn Coady	Strange Heaven	[83]
	Barbara Gowdy	The White Bone
	Wayne Johnston	The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
	Kerri Sakamoto	The Electrical Field
1999	Matt Cohen	Elizabeth and After	[84]
	Neil Bissoondath	The Worlds Within Her	[85]
	Anne Fleming	Pool-hopping and Other Stories
	Elyse Gasco	Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
	Keith Maillard	Gloria

2000s

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
2000	Michael Ondaatje	Anil's Ghost	[86]
	Margaret Atwood	The Blind Assassin	[87]
	Austin Clarke	The Question
	David Adams Richards	Mercy Among the Children
	Eden Robinson	Monkey Beach
2001	Richard B. Wright	Clara Callan	[88]
	Yann Martel	Life of Pi	[89]
	Tessa McWatt	Dragons Cry
	Jane Urquhart	The Stone Carvers
	Thomas Wharton	Salamander
2002	Gloria Sawai	A Song for Nettie Johnson	[90]
	David Bergen	The Case of Lena S.	[91]
	Ann Ireland	Exile
	Wayne Johnston	The Navigator of New York
	Carol Shields	Unless
2003	Douglas Glover	Elle	[92]
	Margaret Atwood	Oryx and Crake	[93]
	Elizabeth Hay	Garbo Laughs
	Jean McNeil	Private View
	Edeet Ravel	Ten Thousand Lovers
2004	Miriam Toews	A Complicated Kindness	[94]
	David Bezmozgis	Natasha and Other Stories	[95]
	Trevor Cole	Norman Bray, In the Performance of His Life
	Colin McAdam	Some Great Thing
	Alice Munro	Runaway
2005	David Gilmour	A Perfect Night to Go to China	[96]
	Joseph Boyden	Three Day Road	[97]
	Golda Fried	Nellcott Is My Darling
	Charlotte Gill	Ladykiller
	Kathy Page	Alphabet
2006	Peter Behrens	The Law of Dreams	[98]
	Trevor Cole	The Fearsome Particles	[99]
	Bill Gaston	Gargoyles
	Paul Glennon	The Dodecahedron, or A Frame for Frames
	Rawi Hage	De Niro's Game
2007	Michael Ondaatje	Divisadero	[100]
	David Chariandy	Soucouyant	[101]
	Barbara Gowdy	Helpless
	Heather O'Neill	Lullabies for Little Criminals
	M. G. Vassanji	The Assassin's Song
2008	Nino Ricci	The Origin of Species	[102]
	Rivka Galchen	Atmospheric Disturbances	[103]
	Rawi Hage	Cockroach
	David Adams Richards	The Lost Highway
	Fred Stenson	The Great Karoo
2009	Kate Pullinger	The Mistress of Nothing	[104]
	Michael Crummey	Galore	[105]
	Annabel Lyon	The Golden Mean
	Alice Munro	Too Much Happiness
	Deborah Willis	Vanishing and Other Stories

2010s

Year	Author	Title	Ref.
2010	Dianne Warren	Cool Water	[106]
	Sandra Birdsell	Waiting for Joe	[107]
	Emma Donoghue	Room
	Drew Hayden Taylor	Motorcycles & Sweetgrass
	Kathleen Winter	Annabel
2011	Patrick deWitt	The Sisters Brothers	[108]
	David Bezmozgis	The Free World	[109]
	Esi Edugyan	Half-Blood Blues
	Marina Endicott	The Little Shadow
	Alexi Zentner	Touch
2012	Linda Spalding	The Purchase	[110]
	Tamas Dobozy	Siege 13	[111]
	Robert Hough	Dr. Brinkley's Tower
	Vincent Lam	The Headmaster's Wager
	Carrie Snyder	The Juliet Stories
2013	Eleanor Catton	The Luminaries	[112]
	Kenneth Bonert	The Lion Seeker	[113]
	Joseph Boyden	The Orenda
	Colin McAdam	A Beautiful Truth
	Shyam Selvadurai	The Hungry Ghosts
2014	Thomas King	The Back of the Turtle	[114]
	Michael Crummey	Sweetland	[115]
	Bill Gaston	Juliet Was a Surprise
	Claire Holden Rothman	My October
	Joan Thomas	The Opening Sky
2015	Guy Vanderhaeghe	Daddy Lenin and Other Stories	[116]
	Kate Cayley	How You Were Born	[117]
	Rachel Cusk	Outline
	Helen Humphreys	The Evening Chorus
	Clifford Jackman	The Winter Family
2016	Madeleine Thien	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	[118]
	Gary Barwin	Yiddish for Pirates	[119]
	Anosh Irani	The Parcel
	Kerry Lee Powell	Willem de Kooning's Paintbrush
	Katherena Vermette	The Break
2017	Joel Thomas Hynes	We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night	[120]
	Michael Kaan	The Water Beetles	[121]
	Alison MacLeod	All the Beloved Ghosts
	Jocelyn Parr	Uncertain Weights and Measures
	Kathleen Winter	Lost in September
2018	Sarah Henstra	The Red Word	[122]
	Paige Cooper	Zolitude	[123]
	Rawi Hage	Beirut Hellfire Society
	Miriam Toews	Women Talking
	Joshua Whitehead	Jonny Appleseed
2019	Joan Thomas	Five Wives	[124]
	Michael Crummey	The Innocents	[125]
	Cary Fagan	The Student
	Marianne Micros	Eye
	K. D. Miller	Late Breaking

2020s

Year	Author	Title	Ref
2020	Michelle Good	Five Little Indians	[126]
	Francesca Ekwuyasi	Butter Honey Pig Bread	[127]
	Thomas King	Indians on Vacation
	Lisa Robertson	The Baudelaire Fractal
	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies
2021	Norma Dunning	Tainna	[128]
	Rachel Cusk	Second Place	[129]
	G. A. Grisenthwaite	Home Waltz
	Joe Ollmann	Fictional Father
	Sheung-King	You Are Eating an Orange. You Are Naked.
2022	Sheila Heti	Pure Colour	[130]
	Shashi Bhat	The Most Precious Substance on Earth	[131]
	Lisa Bird-Wilson	Probably Ruby
	Brian Thomas Isaac	All the Quiet Places
	Sheila Murray	Finding Edward
2023	Anuja Varghese	Chrysalis	[132]
	Suzette Mayr	The Sleeping Car Porter	[133]
	Janika Oza	A History of Burning
	Iain Reid	We Spread
	Kai Thomas	In the Upper Country
2024	Jordan Abel	Empty Spaces	[134]
	Paola Ferrante	Her Body Among Animals	[135]
	Oonya Kempadoo	Naniki
	Canisia Lubrin	Code Noir
	Kent Monkman, Gisèle Gordon	The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island

Multiple Winners

3 Awards

• Hugh MacLennan (1945, 1948, 1959)
• Alice Munro (1968 (tied), 1978, 1986)
• Guy Vanderhaeghe (1982, 1996, 2015) no other nominations
• Michael Ondaatje (1992, 2000, 2007)

2 Awards

• Gwethalyn Graham (1938, 1944)
• Gabrielle Roy (1947, 1957)
• David Walker (1952, 1953) only back-to-back winner
• Brian Moore (1960, 1975)
• Margaret Laurence (1966, 1974)
• Mordecai Richler (1968 (tied), 1971)
• Rudy Wiebe (1973, 1994) no other nominations
• Nino Ricci (1990, 2008) no other nominations

Prior to 1979, only the winners were announced.

Some winners of this prize have also won Governor General's Literary Awards in other categories, such as Margaret Atwood (Fiction, Poetry).

References

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118. "Madeline Thien wins Governor-General's award for English fiction". The Globe and Mail, October 25, 2016.
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