In this sequel to the award-winning A Boy Is Not a Bird, a boy is exiled to Siberia during World War II. Based on a true story. Torn from his home in Eastern Europe, with his father imprisoned in a Siberian gulag, twelve-year-old Natt...
Governor General's Literary Awards 2022
Congratulations to the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Award Winners! The full list of winners and information about the GG's and Canada Council for the Arts can be found on the Governor General's Literary Awards website. It has been a pleasure to work with the Canada Council for the Arts to bring you the 2021 winners in accessible formats. As they have in previous years, the Council granted us early access to the winners' list, which made it possible for us to have them here for you today.
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 2022 finalists below!!
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 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, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021.
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Author:Ravel, EdeetSummary: - Author:Donner, RebeccaSummary:
Born in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began secret resistance meetings in her apartment, then became a spy. When the...
- Author:Isaac, Brian ThomasSummary:
It's 1956, and six-year-old Eddie Toma lives with his mother, Grace, and his little brother, Lewis, near the Salmon River on the far edge of the Okanagan Indian Reserve in the British Columbia Southern Interior. Grace, her friend Isabel...
- Author:Champagne, JulieSummary:
Quand l’univers explose à petite échelle Lorsque Sam apprend que sa mère est atteinte d’un cancer, elle a l’impression que son univers s’écroule. Plutôt que de se laisser paralyser par le chagrin, la très cartésienne adolescente décide...
- Author:Foucher, CarolanneSummary:
Je suis un fantôme. Je suis au milieu d'une grande sœur et d'un petit frère. Mes notes à l'école c'est B, des fois B. Je suis pas tellement populaire, mais pas tellement l'inverse non plus. Je suis toujours quelque chose entre les deux...
- Author:Bradford, DavidSummary:
An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical...
- Author:Chafe, RobertSummary:
After an unexpected night in a Regina hospital emergency room, Robert Chafe can't shake the burning question of whether he's Tennessee Williams or Dorothy Zbornak. Are his symptoms a harbinger of a terrifying undiagnosed condition, or...
- Author:Murray, SheilaSummary:
Cyril Rowntree migrates to Toronto from Jamaica in 2012. Managing a precarious balance of work and university he begins to navigate his way through the implications of being racialized in his challenging new land. A chance encounter...
- Author:Wray, BrittSummary:
An impassioned generational perspective on how to stay sane amid climate disruption. Climate and environment-related fears and anxieties are on the rise everywhere. As with any type of stress, eco-anxiety can lead to lead to burnout,...
- Author:Anctil, PierreSummary:
The presence of Jews in Quebec dates back four centuries. Quebec Jewry, in Montreal in particular, has evolved over time, thanks to successive waves of migration from different regions of the world. The Jews of Quebec belong to a unique...
- Author:Lake, AverySummary:
A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally...
- Author:Ho, JeffSummary:
From the author of trace comes two adaptations that transport mythological stories from Ancient Greece to modern-day civilizations. Led by people of colour, these darkly comedic plays depict recognizable plights for justice. Iphigenia...
- Author:George, Doris, Philpot, Don K.Summary:
A magical children's picture book, written in Cree and English, depicting the transformation of a barren landscape into a rich natural world where an elderly couple can spend their remaining days. Rooted in the historical displacement...
- Author:OrbieSummary:
C’était l’été d’une drôle d’année. Une année où les enfants ne pouvaient plus jouer près, les uns des autres. Sur la tête d’Annette, une famille de poux est en pleine expension. Ils commencent même à être un peu à l’étroit. Mais comment...
- Author:B., DaphnéSummary:
Comment sauver une amie sans risquer sa propre vie ? Une nouvelle voisine, aperçue de loin, s’absente de l’école. Très tôt, se dessine chez la narratrice l’envie de la connaître et de la sauver de sa mystérieuse maladie. Elle-même aux...
- Author:Chan, MarjorieSummary:
From the glittering high-rise condos to the desperate streets of Vancouver, powerful stories told by women reveal the fraying social fabric among the wealthy and hangers-on in the city's Asian Canadian community. Lady Sunrise introduces...
- Author:Joli, MargotSummary:
Le fruit de la haine est un roman policier dont l'action se déroule en 1968 dans le petit village manitobain de Rochelle. Une résidente du village est retrouvée morte sur le sentier qui mène à l'épicerie. Le caporal Sylvain Trudel de la...
- Author:Jarry, Marie-HélèneSummary:
Et si c’était la dernière neige pour Théo ? C’est la première neige aujourd’hui. Marjorie a écrit ces mots dans un carnet vert fluo à la papeterie, pour tester l’épaisseur du papier. Le lendemain, étrange... quelqu’un lui a répondu ! Le...
- Author:Farah, ÀlainSummary:
Alain épouse Virginie en la crypte de l'oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal. En apparence, ce sera le plus beau jour de sa vie - de leur vie. Tout le monde est là, les parents de la mariée, la grande amie, les parents du narrateur -...
- Author:Forsythe, MatthewSummary:
From the creator of the acclaimed and beloved Pokko and the Drum comes an emotionally resonant picture book about trust, worry, and loyalty between a father and daughter. Mina and her father live in a hollowed-out tree stump on the edge...
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