The shortlisted nominees for the 2019 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2, 2019,[1] and the winners were announced on October 29.[2]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Joan Thomas, Five Wives[2]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Don Gillmor, To the River: Losing My Brother[2]
  • Brian Harvey, Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
  • Naomi K. Lewis, Tiny Lights for Travellers
  • Alan Walker, Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
  • Dan Werb, City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands
Poetry Blue ribbon Gwen Benaway, Holy Wild[2]
Drama Blue ribbon Amanda Parris, Other Side of the Game[2]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Erin Bow, Stand on the Sky[2]
  • Brian Francis, Break in Case of Emergency
  • Sue Farrell Holler, Cold White Sun
  • Michelle Kadarusman, Girl of the Southern Sea
  • Jo Treggiari, The Grey Sisters
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Sydney Smith, Small in the City[2]
French to English translation Blue ribbon Linda Gaboriau, Birds of a Kind (Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux)[2]

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc[3]
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Anne-Marie Voisard, Le droit du plus fort : nos dommages, leurs intérêts[3]
  • Daniel Canty, La Société des grands fonds
  • Sarah Brunet Dragon, Cartographie des vivants
  • Antonine Maillet, Clin d'œil au Temps qui passe
  • Patrick Moreau, La prose d'Alain Grandbois. Ou lire et relire Les voyages de Marco Polo
Poetry Blue ribbon Anne-Marie Desmeules, Le tendon et l'os[3]
  • Michel Létourneau, La part habitée du ciel
  • Louise Marois, La cuisine mortuaire
  • Louis-Thomas Plamondon, Portages
  • Chloé Savoie-Bernard, Fastes
Drama Blue ribbon Mishka Lavigne, Havre[3]
Children's literature Blue ribbon Dominique Demers, L'albatros et la mésange[3]
  • Lucie Bergeron, Dans le cœur de Florence
  • Édith Bourget, Où est ma maison?
  • Pierre Labrie, Mon cœur après la pluie
  • Jean-François Sénéchal, Au carrefour
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Stéphanie Lapointe and Delphie Côté-Lacroix, Jack et le temps perdu[3]
  • Simon Boulerice and Josée Bisaillon, Le pelleteur de nuages
  • Stéphanie Deslauriers and Geneviève Després, Laurent, c'est moi!
  • Mélanie Leclerc, Contacts
  • Lucie Papineau and Lucie Crovatto, L'escapade de Paolo
English to French translation Blue ribbon Catherine Leroux, Nous qui n'étions rien (Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing)[3]

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