2011 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2011 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 11,[1] and the winners were announced on November 15.[2]

English

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Patrick deWitt, The Sisters Brothers
Non-fiction   Charles Foran, Mordecai: The Life & Times
  • Nathan M. Greenfield, The Damned: The Canadians at the Battle of Hong Kong and the POW Experience, 1941-45
  • Richard Gwyn, Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891
  • JJ Lee, The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit
  • Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
Poetry   Phil Hall, Killdeer
Drama   Erin Shields, If We Were Birds
Children's literature   Christopher Moore, From Then to Now: A Short History of the World
Children's illustration   Cybèle Young, Ten Birds
French to English translation   Donald Winkler, Partita for Glenn Gould (Partita pour Glenn Gould, Georges Leroux)

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Perrine Leblanc, L'homme blanc
Non-fiction   Georges Leroux, Wanderer : essai sur le Voyage d'hiver de Franz Schubert
Poetry   Louise Dupré, Plus haut que les flammes
Drama   Normand Chaurette, Ce qui meurt en dernier
Children's literature   Martin Fournier, Les aventures de Radisson - 1. L'enfer ne brûle pas
Children's illustration   Caroline Merola, Lili et les poilus
English to French translation   Maryse Warda, Toxique ou l'incident dans l'autobus (The Toxic Bus Incident, Greg MacArthur)

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