Quand mon père est mort, je n'ai pas hérité de boîtes pleines de documents et de lettres. Ses cendres ont été jetées à l'eau. Ses biens ont été donnés, détruits à la hâte. Il avait les yeux clairs et portait la barbe. Sur...
Governor General's Literary Awards 2019
The Governor General’s Literary Awards are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of seven categories:
- Fiction
- Literary Non-fiction
- Poetry
- Drama
- Young People’s Literature (Text)
- Young People’s Literature (Illustrated Books)
- Translation (from French to English, and English to French).
Check out some of the 2019 finalists, below, and read about the 4 winners, here! More titles will be added to this collection over the coming month, so feel free to check back to see what has been included. While we cannot produce all 70 longlisted titles, we encourage you to request the ones you would like to read, in whatever format you need. To access our request form, log into your NNELS account and search for the book you want; if you cannot find it, look for the link to the title request form above the filters on any page of search results.
For more great Canadian reading, please check out the winners and nominees from 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018.
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Author:Huyghebaert, CélineSummary: - Author:Voisard, Anne-MarieSummary:
Cet essai est né d'une expérience vécue. Il ne prend pas pour autant la forme d'un témoignage. Il ne s'agit pas non plus de rouvrir, par les voies détournées de l'écriture, deux procès que des règlements hors cour auraient laissé...
- Author:Boulerice, SimonSummary:
Elliot adore les nuages, mais il déteste les taches blanches qui sont apparues sur ses mains et grandissent un peu plus chaque jour. À l’école, ses camarades de classe, intrigués, commencent à poser des questions. Pourquoi changes-tu de...
- Author:Barwin, Gary, Saint-Martin, Lori, Gagné, PaulSummary:
Les Amériques ne figurent encore sur aucune carte quand Moshé décide de fuir son shtetl misérable et les pogroms qui le ravagent. Répondant à l’appel du large et de l’inconnu, le boychik de quatorze ans embarque comme moussaillon sur un...
- Author:Goldberg, ÉléonoreSummary:
Dans ce livre exploratoire de la mémoire où s'entrecroisent fiction et souvenirs, Macha, début trentaine, raconte les lieux qu'elle a habités et traversés depuis son enfance : des grandes maisons de Vineuil et de Kinshasa, en...
- Author:Awumey, EdemSummary:
Kerim Neto est revenu dans sa ville natale, cette cité au bord de l'Atlantique prise entre les morsures du soleil et les sermons virulents de prêcheurs, apôtres et prophètes improvisés. Il est revenu parce qu'il s'est lancé à la...
- Author:Labrie, PierreSummary:
Aujourd'hui, il pleut. Il pleut à transformer les flaques d'eau en lacs. Aujourd'hui, il n'y aura pas de récréation dans la cour d'école. Il n'y aura pas plus de pause à l'extérieur après le dîner. Aujourd'hui, tout se passe à...
- Author:Winter, Kathleen, Voillot, SophieSummary:
Un homme erre dans les rues de Montréal. Selon l’état civil, il s’appelle Jimmy Blanchard, mais il s’exprime dans le plus pur anglais du XVIIIe siècle. Lui-même affirme qu’il n’est nul autre que le général James Wolfe, vainqueur de la...
- Author:Parris, AmandaSummary:
In this striking debut, Amanda Parris turns the spotlight on the Black women who organize communities, support their incarcerated loved ones, and battle institutions, living each day by a ride-or-die philosophy, strengthening their...
- Author:Dimaline, Cherie, Stratford, MadeleineSummary:
** IBBY Canada 2022 Honor List ** Dans un monde ravagé qui court à sa perte, les êtres humains ont perdu la capacité de rêver. Seuls les peuples autochtones ont su préserver cette faculté dont le secret réside dans la moelle de leurs os...
- Author:Plamondon, Louis-ThomasSummary:
La poésie de Louis-Thomas Plamondon marque un temps d'arrêt de beauté et d'existence. Les portages de Louis-Thomas Plamondon, à pas feutrés dans le brouillard, les plaines et les sentiers de branches, dissimulent des moments de...
- Author:Harvey, Brian J.Summary:
An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his father. After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after...
- Author:Bow, ErinSummary:
Twelve--year-old Aisulu defies the expectations of her Kazakh family and tradition to train an eagle in order to save her brother, Serik, and prevent her family from giving up their nomadic life forever.
- Author:Brousseau, SimonSummary:
Synapses depicts a vast society of differing psyches, all unique, idiosyncratic, and interconnected. Simon Brousseau's beautifully crafted literary snapshots, each written in a single, stylistically accomplished sentence and featuring a...
- Author:Loring, KevinSummary:
Nan's family is home for Thanksgiving, but some unsolicited truths are about to be dropped at the dinner table. Old wounds and new realities collide, and sibling rivalry is stoked, but the enduring spirit that guides this family charges...
- Author:Caillé, Anne-Renée, Mullins, RhondaSummary:
He tells her about cases he remembers. The two young women found in the forest, the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels, the casket that caught on fire at the funeral. He reveals the secrets of his profession. The powder that...
- Author:Oliver, Sean HarrisSummary:
Sean Harris Oliver's The Fighting Season is a searing investigation into the Afghan War through the eyes of a Canadian field medic (Kristy), an OR surgeon (Terry), and a recovery room nurse (Karine). When all three medical professionals...
- Author:Treggiari, JoSummary:
D and Spider have always been close friends, and they are further united in their shared heartbreak: they both lost siblings in a horrific plane crash two years earlier. A chance sighting of a beloved cuddly toy in a photograph of the...
- Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary:
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
Set in Toronto, this short novel is a portrait of two pivotal times in the life of Miriam Moscowitz. The first section describes her experiences as a bright young university student in the 1950s and recounts the discrimination she faced...
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