Governor General's Literary Awards
Fiction

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The Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (English) is awarded annually for a book written by a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident of Canada.

See also: Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction (French)

indicates a review is available for that book


2014

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2013

  • Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries

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2012

  • Linda Spalding – The Purchase

Also shortlisted:

  • Tamas Dobozy – Siege 13
  • Robert Hough – Dr. Brinkley's Tower
  • Vincent Lam – The Headmaster's Wager
  • Carrie Snyder – The Juliet Stories

2011

  • Patrick deWitt – The Sisters Brothers

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2010

  • Dianne Warren – Cool Water

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2009

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2008

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2007

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2006

Also shortlisted:

  • Trevor Cole – The Fearsome Particles
  • Bill GastonGargoyles
  • Paul Glennon – The Dodecahedron, or A Frame for Frames
  • Rawi Hage – De Niro's Game

2005

  • David Gilmour – A Perfect Night to Go to China

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2004

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2003

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2002

  • Gloria Sawai – A Song for Nettie Johnson

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2001

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2000

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1999

Also shortlisted:

  • Neil Bissoondath – The Worlds Within Her
  • Anne Fleming – Pool-hopping and Other Stories
  • Elyse Gasco – Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
  • Keith Maillard – Gloria

1998

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1997

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1996

Also shortlisted:

  • Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace
  • Elisabeth Harvor – Let Me Be the One
  • Janice Kulyk Keefer – The Green Library
  • Cordelia Strube – Teaching Pigs to Sing
  • Audrey Thomas – Coming Down from Wa

1995

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1994

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1993

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1992

Also shortlisted:

  • Sandra Birdsell – The Chrome Suite
  • Archie Crail – The Bonus Deal
  • John Steffler – The Afterlife of George Cartwright
  • Sheila Watson – Deep Hollow Creek

1991

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1990

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1989

Also shortlisted:

  • Ann Copeland – The Golden Thread
  • Helen Weinzweig – A View from the Roof

1988

Also shortlisted:

  • Margaret Atwood – Cat's Eye
  • Joan Clark – The Victory of Geraldine Gull
  • Mark Frutkin – Atmospheres Apollinaire
  • Kenneth Radu – The Cost of Living

1987

  • M.T. Kelly – A Dream Like Mine

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1986

Also shortlisted:

  • Lois Braun – A Stone Watermelon
  • John Metcalf – Adult Entertainment
  • Aritha van Herk – No Fixed Address

1985

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1984

  • Josef Skvorecky – The Engineer of Human Souls

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1983

Also shortlisted:

  • Philip Kreiner – People Like Us In a Place Like This
  • H.R. Percy – Painted Ladies
  • Susan Swan – The Biggest Modern Woman of the World

1982

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1981


1980

  • George Bowering – Burning Water

Also shortlisted:

  • Susan Musgrave – The Charcoal Burners
  • Leon Rooke – Fat Woman

1979

  • Jack Hodgins – The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne

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1978


1977


1976


1975

  • Brian Moore – The Great Victorian Collection

1974


1973


1972


1971


1970

  • Dave Godfrey – The New Ancestors

1969

  • Robert Kroetsch – The Studhorse Man

1968


1966


1964

  • Douglas LePan – The Deserter

1963

  • Hugh Garner – Hugh Garner's Best Stories

1962

  • Kildare Dobbs – Running to Paradise

1961

  • Malcolm Lowry – Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place

1960

  • Brian Moore – The Luck of Ginger Coffey

1959


1958

  • Colin McDougall – Execution

1957


1956


1955

  • Lionel Shapiro – The Sixth of June

1954

  • Igor Gouzenko – The Fall of a Titan

1953


1952


1951


1950

  • Germaine Guèvremont – The Outlander (translation)

1949

  • Philip Child – Mr. Ames Against Time

1948


1947


1946


1945


1944

  • Gwethalyn Graham – Earth and High Heaven

1943


1942

  • G. Herbert Sallans – Little Man

1941

  • Alan Sullivan – Three Came to Ville Marie

1940

  • Ringuet (pseud.) – Thirty Acres (translation)

1939

  • Franklin D. McDowell – The Champlain Road

1938

  • Gwethalyn Graham – Swiss Sonata

1937


1936

  • Bertram Brooker – Think of The Earth