INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER Four generations. Three sisters. One impossible choice. A profoundly moving debut novel spanning India, Uganda, England, and Canada, about how one act of survival reverberates across generations of a family...
Governor General's Literary Awards 2023
The full list of finalists 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 2023 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 2023 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, 2021 and 2022.
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Author:Oza, JanikaSummary: - Author:Tom, PaulSummary:
Each year, more than 400 minors arrive alone in Canada requesting refugee status. They arrive without their parents, accompanied by no adult at all. Alone relates the journey of three of them: Afshin, Alain and Patricia. Their story...
- Author:Katouh, ZoulfaSummary:
Eighteen-year-old Salama Kassab, a pharmacy student volunteering at the hospital in Homs, is desperate to find passage on a refugee boat for herself and her pregnant best friend, but first she must learn to see the events around her for...
- Author:Mestokosho, RitaSummary:
Atiku utei, « le coeur du caribou », c'est la force d'un peuple et sa grande humilité. Les Innus ont marché à travers les tempêtes de la vie. Ils ont traversé des montagnes pour se nourrir de l'esprit du caribou. Ils puisaient en...
- Author:Lam, Amy Ching-YanSummary:
Direct and humorous, Baby Book stacks story upon story to explore how beliefs are first formed. From a family vacation on a discount bus tour to a cosmogony based on cheese, these poems accumulate around principles of contingency and...
- Author:Kadarusman, MichelleSummary:
Perspectives of two Indonesian middle-schoolers and a caged orangutan entwine. Wealthy Malia faces the consequences of disobediently circulating an anti-palm-oil petition at her school, resulting in suspensions for herself, her best...
- Author:Varghese, AnujaSummary:
Genre-blending stories of transformation and belonging that centre women of colour and explore queerness, family, and community. A couple in a crumbling marriage faces divine intervention. A woman dies in her dreams again and again...
- Author:Edugyan, EsiSummary:
Jusqu'au xxe siècle, les Noirs sont rarement représentés dans la littérature et l'art des nations occidentales et, quand ils le sont, ils n'apparaissent presque jamais comme des êtres humains à part entière. À l'instar des corps...
- Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary:
A stunning new collection from a master poet celebrated for her singular voice. From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage,...
- Author:Lawrence, IainSummary:
Separated from his siblings in the midst of a dangerous forest fire, 11-year-old Virgil must find a way to survive using only his wits and the lessons his late mother taught him about the wilderness.Virgil is making his older siblings...
- Author:Kanagawa, HiroSummary:
Mitsue Sakamoto and Ralph MacLean both suffered tremendous loss during WWII: Mitsue as a survivor of a Japanese Canadian internment camp, and Ralph as a prisoner in a Japanese POW camp. In order to rebuild their lives and their families...
- Author:Gosselin, MathieuSummary:
Gros gars est l’alter-ego de l’auteur et comédien Mathieu Gosselin, une facette de sa personnalité qui apparaît fréquemment pour l’empêcher d’avancer. Né « deep and delicious, double crème, triple chocolat », Gros gars remet tout au...
- Author:Dawson, NicholasSummary:
A meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experience.
- Author:Thomas, Kai.Summary:
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Shortlisted for the 2023 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Shortlisted for the 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-...
- Author:Mooney, HarrisonSummary:
A narrative that amplifies a voice rarely heard - that of the child at the centre of a transracial adoption and a searing account of being raised by religious fundamentalists. Harrison Mooney was born to a West African mother and...
- Author:Tannahill, JordanSummary:
First produced in Canada by Canadian Stage, Toronto, in September 2021. First produced by Theater der Welt, Dusseldorf, in June 2021. The title of the play is a striking quote from Greta Thunberg's speech to the UK's parliament in April...
- Author:Jean, MichelSummary:
«C'est un de ces soirs où je trayais les vaches dans la lumière du soleil couchant que je l'ai vu pour la première fois. Un canot est apparu, descendant en silence la rivière. Un homme torse nu, à la peau cuivrée, ramait sans se...
- Author:Namian, DahliaSummary:
Bernés par les prestidigitations des ultrariches, nous regardons ceux-ci, stupéfaits, dilapider les ressources de la planète. Dans son roman Chien blanc, Romain Gary appelle «société de provocation» cet ordre social où l'...
- Author:Diouf, BoucarSummary:
Le Bourlingueur. Oh, il est bien connu à travers tout Matungoua ce Bourlingueur! Il s'appelle Zinalé. Tous les jours ou presque, il se promène sur les berges du fleuve Rigaloua, où habitent ses copains hippopotames. Un jour, deux hippos...
- Author:Réhel, Jean-ChristopheSummary:
Lorsque les mots ne se laissent pas dompter Pas facile pour le narrateur d'avoir les deux pieds sur Terre. Surtout s'il doit s'y battre avec des mots qui refusent de collaborer, des phrases qui se dressent comme des obstacles et des...
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