The winners have been announced for the 2020 Governor General’s Literary Awards. The annual awards were delayed from their traditional fall timing because of complications around COVID-19.

The English-language winners are listed below. The French-language winners are listed on the awards’ website.

Fiction
Jury: Anne Fleming, Ariela Freedman, and Rabindranath Maharaj

• Five Little Indians, Michelle Good (Harper Perennial/HarperCollins)

Read Q&Q‘s interview with Michelle Good about her GG win.

Nonfiction
Jury: Deni Ellis Béchard, Helen Humphreys, and Sally Ito

• This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves, Madhur Anand (Strange Light/Penguin Random House Canada)

Read Q&Q‘s interview with Madhur Anand about her GG win.

Young People’s Literature – Text
Jury: Catherine Austen, Cary Fagan, and Shenaaz Nanji

• The King of Jam Sandwiches, Eric Walters (Orca Book Publishers)

Read Q&Q‘s interview with Eric Walters about his GG win.

Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books
Jury: Wallace Edwards, Bonnie Farmer, and Kyo Maclear

• The Barnabus Project, The Fan Brothers (Tundra Books/ Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers)

Read Q&Q‘s interview with The Fan Brothers about their GG win.

Poetry
Jury: David Groulx, Clea Roberts, and Johanna Skibsrud

• Norma Jeane Baker of Troy, Anne Carson (New Directions)

Drama
Jury: Catherine Banks, Andrew Moodie, and Kenneth T. Williams

• Kamloopa: An Indigenous Matriarch Story, Kim Senklip Harvey (Talonbooks)

Translation (from French to English)
Jury: Angela Carr, Jo-Anne Elder, and Nigel Spencer

• If You Hear Me, Pascale Quiviger, Lazer Lederhendler (trans.) (Biblioasis)