The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the finalists for this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards.

Among the authors shortlisted for this year’s English-language prizes are Kim Fu, Kai Kellough, Jordan Tannahill, Saeed Teebi, Michelle Kadarusman, Matthew Forsythe, and Katia Grubisic.

These awards celebrate works published in Canada, in both official languages, across seven categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, young people’s literature for text and illustration, and translation.

The winners will be announced on Nov. 12.

The shortlisted titles are:

Fiction

• Suddenly Light by Nina Dunic (Invisible Books)
• Mother of God by Sara Peters (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Good Guys by Sharon Bala (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts by Kim Fu (HarperCollins Publishers) Profile
• Property by Kate Cayley (Coach House Books) Review

Poetry

• An Orange, a Syllable by Gillian Sze (ECW Press)
• Pitiful:Poems by Brandi Bird (House of Anansi Press)
• The World After Rain by Canisia Lubrin (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• Interposition by Kaie Kellough (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC) Review
• Catastrophilia by Julie Roorda (Guernica Editions)

Drama

• Prince Faggot by Jordan Tannahill (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Salesman in China by Leanna Brodie and Jovanni Sy (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Red Like Fruit by Hannah Moscovitch (Playwrights Canada Press)
• PYPER by Susanna Fournier (Playwrights Canada Press)

Nonfiction

• You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times by Saeed Teebi (Scribner Canada/Simon & Schuster Canada) Profile
• The Lobster Trap: The Global Fight for a Seafood on the Brink by Greg Mercer (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• Black Bear: A Story of Siblinghood and Survival by Trina Moyles (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews (Knopf Canada/PRHC)
• The Work of our Hands: A Cree Meditation on the Real World by Adrian Sutherland (Viking/Penguin Random House Canada)

Young People’s Literature — Text

• Touching Grass by Kristy Jackson (HarperCollins Canada)
• The Love Song of Mr. Byrd by Philippa Dowding (DCB/Cormorant Books)
• The World’s End by David A. Robertson (Tundra Books/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Seabird by Michella Kadarusman (Pajama Press) Review
• The Rebel Girls of Rome by Jordyn Taylor (HarperCollins Canada)

Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

• Call Me Gray by Andrew Larsen and Bells Larsen; Tallulah Fontaine, ill. (Kids Can Press) Review
• Aggie and the Ghost by Matthew Forsythe (Simon & Schuster) Review
• Little Moments in a Big Universe by Todd Stewart (Owlkids Books)
• Billie Builds a RoboCorn by José Lourenço and James Braithwaite, ill. (Tundra Books/PRHC)
• A Door Is to Open by Kyo Maclear and Julie Morstad, ill. (Tundra Books/PRHC)

Translation (from French to English)

• When Water Became Blue, translated by Rhonda Mullins (Coach House Books)
  Translation of Femme Fleuve by Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette
• All Kidding Aside, translated by Neil Smith (Baraka Books)
  Translation of La Blague du siècle by Jean-Christophe Réhel
• Together by the Sea, translated by Katia Grubisic (House of Anansi Press)
  Translation of Une réunion près de la mer by Marie-Claire Blais
• The Origin of the Future, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky (Guernica Editions)
  Translation of L’origine du futur by Francis Catalano
• The Love of Man, translated by Jonathan Kaplansky (Guernica Editions)
  Translation of L’amour des hommes by Hélène Rioux

French-language finalists in seven categories are listed on the LivresGG website.