The Canada Council for the Arts announced 70 finalists for the 2022 Governor General’s Literary Awards.

Each finalist receives $1,000, with the winners in each of the 14 categories to receive $25,000. Publishers of the winning books will each receive $3,000 to promote the book.

The winners will be announced on November 16. Eligible books were those published between August 1, 2021 and July 31, 2022.

Fiction

• All the Quiet Places by Brian Thomas Isaac (Brindle & Glass/TouchWood Editions)
• Finding Edward by Sheila Murray (Cormorant Books)
• Probably Ruby by Lisa Bird-Wilson (Doubleday Canada/PRHC)
• Pure Colour by Sheila Heti (Penguin Random House Canada)
• The Most Precious Substance on Earth by Shashi Bhat (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)

Poetry

• Dream of No One But Myself by David Bradford (Brick Books)
• H of H Playbook by Anne Carson (New Directions Publishing)
• Horrible Dance by Avery Lake (Brick Books)
• Shadow Blight by Annick MacAskill (Gaspereau Press)
• Shifting Baseline Syndrome by Aaron Kreuter (University of Regina Press)

Drama

• Everybody Just C@lm the F#ck Down by Robert Chafe (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Inheritance: a pick-the-path experience by Daniel Arnold, Darrell Dennis, and Medina Hahn (Talonbooks)
• Iphigenia and the Furies (On Taurian Land) and Antigone: 方 by Ho Ka Kei (Jeff Ho) (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Lady Sunrise by Marjorie Chan (Playwrights Canada Press)
• The Piano Teacher: A Healing Key by Dorothy Dittrich (Talonbooks)

Non-fiction

• Aki-Wayn-Zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth by Eli Baxter (McGill-Queen’s University Press)
• All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the
  Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler by Rebecca Donner (Little, Brown and Company/Hachette Book Group)
• Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis by Britt Wray (Penguin Random House)
• Persephone’s Children: A Life in Fragments by Rowan McCandless (Rare Machines/Dundurn Press)
• Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)

Young People’s Literature – Text

• A Boy Is Not a Ghost by Edeet Ravel (Groundwood Books)
• Sorry for Your Loss by Joanne Levy (Orca Book Publishers)
• Step by Deborah Ellis (Groundwood Books)
• The Summer of Bitter and Sweet by Jen Ferguson (Heartdrum/HarperCollins)
• Urchin by Kate Story (Running the Goat, Books & Broadsides)

Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books

• kā-āciwīkicik / The Move by Doris George, Don K. Philpot, and Alyssa Koski (ill.) (Heritage House)
• Mina by Matthew Forsythe (Simon & Schuster Canada)
• The Big Bath House by Kyo Maclear and Gracey Zhang (ill.) (Random House Studio, Penguin Random House)
• The Sour Cherry Tree by Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi (ill.) (Owlkids Books)
• Time is a Flower by Julie Morstad (Tundra Books)

Translation (from French to English)

• History of the Jews in Quebec, translated by Judith Weisz Woodsworth (University of Ottawa Press)
  Translation of Histoire des Juifs du Québec by Pierre Anctil
• Remnants, translated by Aleshia Jensen (Book*hug Press)
  Translation of Le drap blanc by Céline Huyghebaert
• They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chief’s Quest for Truth and Harmony, translated by Ben Vrignon (Vidacom Publications)
  Translation of On nous appelait les Sauvages: souvenirs et espoirs d’un chef héréditaire algonquin by Dominique Rankin and Marie-Josée Tardif
• This Is How I Disappear, translated by Aleshia Jensen and Bronwyn Haslam (Drawn & Quarterly)
  Translation of C’est comme ça que je disparais by Mirion Malle
• White Resin, translated by Susan Ouriou (House of Anansi Press)
  Translation of Blanc Résine by Audrée Wilhelmy

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