Looking for the recent Governor General winners? Look no further. Below are the past winners of the 21st century in the categories of fiction and nonfiction.
The Governor General Award is Canada’s most prestigious literary award, dating back to 1936. Some of the big winners include Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Pierre Berton and Mordecai Richler. The categories include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s literature text, children’s literature illustration and translation. Each category awards a winner in both English and French.
Discover the incredible talent and extraordinary books that encompass the 2st century of Canadian English speaking fiction and non-fiction literature. All of these books explore riveting themes, characters and plot development with eloquence and suspense.
Listed below are the winners from 2000 to 2008.
Past Fiction Winners:
2000: Anil’s Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
2001: Clara Callan by Richard D Wright
2002: A Song for Nettie Johnson by Gloria Sawai
2003: Elle by Douglas Glover
2004: A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
2005: A Perfect Night to go to China by David Gilmour
2006: The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens
2007: Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
2008: The Origin of Species by Nino Ricci
Past Non Fiction Winners:
2000: Notes from the Hyena’s Belly by Nega Mezlekia
2001: The Ingenuity Gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon
2002: Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil by Andrew Nikiforuk
2003: Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
2004: Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda by Lt-Gen Romeo Dallaire
2005: The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed by John Vaillant
2006: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
2007: I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
2008: Fifteen Days: Story of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death Inside the Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford
For more information on the books and the authors and for a sneak peak of what’s to come this year, check out the Governor General Literary Awards website. Also check out the past Governor General winners in the field of poetry, drama and children’s literature with Governor General Winners in Poetry, Drama and KidsLit.
The 2009 GG finalists will be announced in October with the winners decided in November. It will be a race to the finish with several best selling Canadian books making it to the top of the charts and into the depths of our hearts. Who will come out on top? One can only wait and see.
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