2015 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015,[1] and the winners were announced on October 28.

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive
  • Ted Bishop, The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word
  • David Halton, Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War
  • Michael Harris, Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover
  • Armand Garnet Ruffo, Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
Poetry Blue ribbon Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me
Drama Blue ribbon David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave
Children's literature Blue ribbon Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth
  • Dan Bar-el, Audrey (cow)
  • Darren Groth, Are You Seeing Me?
  • Susin Nielsen, We Are All Made of Molecules
  • Emil Sher, Young Man with Camera
Children's illustration Blue ribbon JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers
  • Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji, Jack, the King of Ashes
  • Kyo Maclear and Marion Arbona, The Good Little Book
  • John Martz, A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories
  • Mélanie Watt, Bug in a Vacuum
French to English translation Blue ribbon Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals (Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine)
  • David Scott Hamilton, Captive (Claudine Dumont, Anabiose)
  • Lazer Lederhendler, The Lake (Perrine Leblanc, Malabourg)
  • Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women (Emmanuelle Walter, Sœurs volées: Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada)
  • Donald Winkler, Arvida (Samuel Archibald, Arvida)

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Nicolas Dickner, Six degrés de liberté
  • Françoise de Luca, Sena
  • Marilyne Fortin, La Fabrica
  • Catherine Harton, Traité des peaux
  • Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Jean-Philippe Warren, Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l'épée (1848-1906)
  • Alain Asselin, Jacques Cayouette and Jacques Mathieu, Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada, tome 1
  • Ying Chen, La lenteur des montagnes
  • Chantal Savoie, Les femmes de lettres canadiennes-françaises au tournant du XXe siècle
  • Patricia Smart, De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan; Se dire, se faire par l'écriture intime
Poetry Blue ribbon Joël Pourbaix, Le mal du pays est un art oublié
  • Martine Audet, Tête première / Dos / Contre dos
  • François Baril Pelletier, Les trésors tamisés
  • Jean-Philippe Dupuis, Langue maternelle
  • René Lapierre, La carte des feux
Drama Blue ribbon Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet
Children's literature Blue ribbon Louis-Philippe Hébert, Marie Réparatrice
  • Camille Bouchard, Les Forces du désordre
  • Denis Côté, Dessine-moi un martien
  • Roger Des Roches, Boîtamémoire
  • Sandra Dussault, Direction Saint-Creux-des-Meuh-Meuh
Children's illustration Blue ribbon André Marois and Patrick Doyon, Le voleur de sandwichs
  • Jacques Goldstyn, L'arbragan
  • Mireille Levert, Quand j'écris avec mon cœur
  • Mélanie Perreault and Marion Arbona, Rosalie entre chien et chat
  • Renée Robitaille and Philippe Béha, Douze oiseaux
English to French translation Blue ribbon Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)

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