The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 14 winners of the 2023 Governor General’s Literary Awards.

The winners were selected from finalists announced last month. Winners receive $25,000, and publishers of the winning titles each receive $3,000 to promote the book.

The winners were chosen by 14 peer assessment groups. This year’s winners are:

Fiction

• Chrysalis by Anuja Varghese (House of Anansi Press)

Poetry

• Xanax Cowboy by Hannah Green (House of Anansi Press)

Drama

• William Shakespeareʼs As You Like It: A Radical Retelling by Cliff Cardinal (Playwrights Canada Press)

Nonfiction

• Unearthing by Kyo Maclear (Knopf Canada/PRHC)

Young People’s Literature – Text

• The Probability of Everything by Sarah Everett (Clarion Books/HarperCollins)

Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books

• When You Can Swim by Jack Wong (Scholastic Canada)

Translation (from French to English)

• Rosaʼs Very Own Personal Revolution, translated by Peter McCambridge (QC Fiction, Baraka Books)
  A translation of La logeuse by Éric Dupont

Winners in the French-language categories are listed on ggbooks.ca.