Governor General's Literary Awards :  from the October Crisis to the present

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1971
Nonfiction:  The last spike : the great railway 1881-1885 by Pierre Berton
Romans et nouvelles:  Le cycle by Gérard Bessette
Études et essais:  La fin d'un règne by Gérald Fortin
Poetry or Drama:  Selected poems by John Glassco
Poésie et théâtre:  Le réel absolu by Paul-Marie Lapointe
Fiction:  St. Urbain's horseman : a novel by Mordecai Richler

1972
Fiction:  The manticore by Robertson Davies
Études et essais:  Histoire économique du Québec 1851-1896 by Jean Hamelin et Yves Roby
Poésie et théâtre:  Signaux pour les voyants by Gilles Hénault
Poetry or Drama:  Civil elegies, and other poems by Dennis Lee
Romans et nouvelles:  Don l'Orignal by Antonine Maillet
Poetry or Drama:  Lies by John Newlove

1973
Nonfiction:  Painters in a new land by Michael Bell
Romans et nouvelles:  L'hiver de force by Réjean Ducharme
Études et essais:  Québec en Amérique au XIXe siècle by Albert Faucher
Poésie et théâtre:  La main au feu** by Roland Giguère
Poetry or Drama:  Lions at her face by Miriam Mandel
Fiction:  The temptations of Big Bear by Rudy Wiebe

1974
Romans et nouvelles:  Don Quichotte de la démanche by Victor-Levy Beaulieu
Poésie et théâtre:  Mécanique jongleuse : suivi de, Masculin grammaticale by Nicole Brossard
Études et essais:  Habitants et marchands de Montréal au XVIIe siècle by Louise Dechêne (English translation)
Poetry or Drama:  Fire on stone by Ralph Gustafson
Fiction:  The diviners by Margaret Laurence
Nonfiction:  The siren years by Charles Ritchie

1975
Poésie et théâtre:  Chouennes by Pierre Perrault
Nonfiction:   Hallowed walls : church architecture of Upper Canada by Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson
Romans et nouvelles:  Les enfants du sabbat : roman by Anne Hébert
Études et essais:  Nordicité canadienne by Louis-Edmond Hamelin
Fiction:  The great Victorian collection by Brian Moore
Poetry or Drama:  The Island means Minago by Milton Acorn

1976
Nonfiction:  The writing of Canadian history : aspects of English-Canadian historical writing, 1900-1970 by Carl Berger
Fiction:  Bear by Marian Engel
Romans et nouvelles:  Les rescapés by André Major
Études et essais:  Les Bas-Canada, 1791-1840 : changements structuraux et crise by Fernand Ouellette
Poésie et théâtre:  Poèms 1946-1968 by Alphonse Piché
Poetry or Drama:  Top soil by Joe Rosenblatt

1977
Fiction:  The wars by Timothy Findley
Romans et nouvelles:  Ces enfants de ma vie : roman by Gabrielle Roy
Nonfiction:  Essays on the Constitution by Frank Scott
Études et essais:  Le développement des idéologies au Québec des origines à nos jours by Denis Monière
Poetry or Drama:  Under the thunder the flowers light up the Earth by D. G. Jones
Poésie et théâtre:  Les célébrations et Adidou Adidouce** by Michel Garneau

1978
Nonfiction:  Go Boy! : memoirs of a life behind bars by Roger Caron
Fiction:  Who do you think you are? by Alice Munro
Poetry or Drama:  Poems, new and selected by Patrick Lane
Études et essais:  Paul-Emile Borduas: Biographie critique at analyse de l'oeuvre by François-Marc Gagnon
Romans et nouvelles:  Les grandes marées by Jacques Poulin (English translation)
Poésie et théâtre:  Mon refuge est un volcan by Gilbert Langevin

1979
Fiction:  The resurrection of Joseph Bourne : or a word or two on those Port Annie miracles by Jack Hodgins
Nonfiction:  Emily Carr : a biography by Maria Tippett
Poetry or Drama:  There's a trick with a knife I'm learning to do : poems, 1963-1978 by Michael Ondaatje
Romans et nouvelles:  Le sourd dans la ville by Marie-Claire Blais
Études et essais:  Le fait anglais au Québec by Dominique Clift et Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos (English translation)
Poésie et théâtre:  Peinture aveugle by Robert Melançon

1980
Fiction:  Burning water by George Bowering
Poetry or Drama:  McAlmon's Chinese opera : poems by Stephen Scobie
Nonfiction:  Discipline of power : the Conservative interlude and the Liberal restoration by Jeffrey Simpson
Romans et nouvelles:  La première personne by Pierre Turgeon
Études et essais:  La famille et l'homme à délivrer du pouvoir by Maurice Champagne-Gilbert
Poésie et théâtre:  De l'oeil et de l'écoute by Michel van Schendel

1981
Fiction:  Home truths : sixteen stories by Mavis Gallant
Poetry:  The collected poems of F. R. Scott by F. R. Scott
Drama:  Blood relations by Sharon Pollock
Nonfiction:  Caribou and the barren-lands by George Calef
Romans et nouvelles:  La province lunaire by Denys Chabot
Poésie:  Visages by Michel Beaulieu
Théâtre:  C'était la guerre de l'Anse à Gilles by Marie Laberge
Études et essais:  L'échappée des discours de l'oeil by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska

1982
Fiction:  Man descending : selected stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Poetry:  Selected poems : the vision tree by Phyllis Webb
Drama:  Billy Bishop goes to war : a play by John Gray, with Eric Peterson
Nonfiction:  Louisbourg portraits : life in an eighteenth-century garrison town by Christopher Moore
Romans et nouvelles:  Le cercle des arènes by Roger Fournier
Poésie:  Forages by Michel Savard
Théâtre:  HA ha!... by Réjean Ducharme
Études et essais:  Le marxisme des années soixante : une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique by Maurice Lagueux

1983
Fiction:  Shakespeare's dog : a novel by Leon Rooke
Poetry:  Settlements by David Donnell
Drama:  Quiet in the land by Anne Chislett
Nonfiction:  Byng of Vimy : General and Governor General by Jeffery Williams
Romans et nouvelles:  Laura Laur : roman by Suzanne Jacob
Poésie:  Un goût de sel by Suzanne Paradis
Théâtre:  Syncope by René Gingras
Études et essais:  Le contrôle social du crime by Maurice Cusson

1984
Fiction:  The engineer of human souls : an entertainment on the old themes of life, women, fate, dreams, the working class, secret agents, love, and death by Josef Skvorecky
Poetry:  Celestial navigation by Paulette Jiles
Drama:  White biting dog by Judith Thompson
Nonfiction:  The private capital : ambition and love in the age of Macdonald and Laurier by Sandra Gwyn
Romans et nouvelles:  Agonie by Jacques Brault
Poésie:  Double impression by Nicole Brossard
Théâtre:  Ne blâmez jamais les Bédouins by René-Daniel Dubois
Études et essais:  Le XXe siècle : Histoire du catholicisme québécois by Jean Hamelin et Nicole Gagnon

1985
Fiction:  The handmaid's tale by Margaret Atwood
Poetry:  Waiting for Saskatchewan by Fred Wah
Drama:  Criminals in Love by George F. Walker
Nonfiction:  The regenerators : social criticism in late Victorian English Canada by Ramsay Cook
Romans et nouvelles:  Lucie ou un midi en novembre by Fernand Ouellette
Poésie:  Action writing by André Roy
Théâtre:  Duo pour voix obstinées by Maryse Pelletier (English translation)
Études et essais:  La littérature contre elle-même by François Ricard

1986
Fiction:  The progress of love by Alice Munro
Poetry:  The collected poems of Al Purdy by Al Purdy
Drama:  Doc by Sharon Pollock
Nonfiction:  Northrop Frye on Shakespeare by Northrop Frye
Romans et nouvelles:  Les silences du corbeau by Yvon Rivard
Poésie:  L'écouté by Cécile Cloutier
Théâtre:  La visite des sauvages by Anne Lagault
Études et essais:  Le réalisme socialiste : une esthétique impossible by Régine Robin (English translation)

1987
Fiction:  A dream like mine by M. T. Kelly
Poetry:  Afterworlds by Gwendolyn MacEwen
Drama:  Prague by John Krizanc
Nonfiction:  The Russian album by Michael Ignatieff
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Rainy day magic by Marie-Louise Gay
Children's Literature - Text:  Galahad Schwartz and the cockroach army by Morgan Nyberg
Translation (from French to English):  Enchantment and sorrow : the autobiography of Gabrielle Roy (Patricia Claxton, trans.) (French-language edition)
Romans et nouvelles:  L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions by Gilles Archambault
Poésie:  Les heures by Fernand Ouellette
Théâtre:  Un oiseau vivant de la gueule by Jeanne-Mance Delisle
Études et essais:  La petite noirceur by Jean Larose
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Venir au monde by Darcia Labrosse
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Le Don by David Schinkel et Yves Beauchesne
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  L'homme qui se croyait aimé by Heather Robertson, trans. by Ivan Steenhout et Christiane Teasdale

1988
Fiction:  Nights below Station Street by David Adams Richards
Poetry:  Furious by Erin Mouré
Drama:  Nothing sacred by George F. Walker
Nonfiction:  In the sleep room by Anne Collins
Children's Literature - Illustration: Amos's sweater by Janet Lunn ; pictures by Kim LaFave
Children's Literature - Text:  The Third Magic by Welwyn Wilton Katz
Translation (from French to English):  Second Chance (Philip Stratford, trans.)
Romans et nouvelles:  Le Silence ou le parfait bonheur by Jacques Folch-Ribas
Poésie:  Papiers d'épidémie by Marcel Labine
Théâtre:  Le chien by Jean Marc Dalpé
Études et essais:  Écrire dans la maison du père by Patricia Smart (English translation)
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Les Jeux Pic-mots by Philippe Béha
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Cassiopée ou L'Été polonais by Michèle Marineau
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Nucléus by Didier Holtzwarth

1989
Fiction:  Whale music by Paul Quarrington
Poetry:  The word for sand by Heather Spears
Drama:  The other side of the dark by Judith Thompson
Nonfiction:  Willie, the life of W. Somerset Maugham by Robert Calder
Children's Literature - Illustration: The magic paintbrush by Robin Muller
Children's Literature - Text:  Bad boy by Diana Wieler
Translation (from French to English):  On the eighth day by Antonine Maillet, trans. by Wayne Grady
Romans et nouvelles:  La rage by Louis Hamelin
Poésie:  Monème by Pierre Desruisseaux
Théâtre:  Mademoiselle Rouge by Michel Garneau
Études et essais:  L'Intolérance : une problématique générale by Lise Noël (English translation)
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Benjamin et la saga des oreillers by Stéphane Poulin (English translation)
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Temps mort by Charles Montpetit
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Les Âges de l'amour by Dorothy Livesay, trans. by Jean Antonin Billard

1990
Fiction:  Lives of the saints by Nino Ricci
Poetry:  No Time by Margaret Avison
Drama:  Goodnight Desdemona (good morning Juliet) by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Nonfiction:  Trudeau and our times by Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall
Children's Literature - Illustration: The orphan boy by Tololwa M. Mollel ; illustrated by Paul Morin
Children's Literature - Text:  Redwork by Michael Bedard
Translation (from French to English):  Yellow-Wolf and other tales of the Saint Lawrence by Philipe Aubert de Gaspé, trans. by Jane Brierley
Romans et nouvelles:  La Mauvaise foi by Gérald Tougas
Poésie:  Les Cendres bleues by Jean-Paul Daoust
Théâtre:  Le Voyage magnifique d'Émily Carr by Jovette Marchessault
Études et essais:  Dans l'oeil de l'aigle by Jean-François Lisée
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Les Fantaisies de l'oncle Henri by Bénédicte Froissart, illustrated by Pierre Pratt
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic by Christiane Duchesne
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Le second rouleau by A. M. Klein; trans. by Charlotte & Robert Melançon (English version)

1991
Fiction:  Such a long journey by Rohinton Mistry
Poetry:  Night field by Don McKay
Drama:  Amigo's blue guitar by Joan MacLeod
Nonfiction:  Occupied Canada : a young white man discovers his unsuspected past by Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Doctor Kiss says yes by Teddy Jam, illustrated by Joanne Fitzgerald
Children's Literature - Text: Pick-up sticks by Sarah Ellis
Translation (from French to English):  A dictionary of literary devices : gradus, A-Z by Bernard Dupriez ; translated and adapted by Albert W. Halsall
Romans et nouvelles:  La Croix du Nord by André Brochu
Poésie:  Chant pour un Québec lointain by Madeleine Gagnon
Théâtre:  Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri by Gilbert Dupuis
Études et essais:  Le Jaguar et le tamanoir by Bernard Arcand (English version)
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Un champion by Roch Carrier, illustrated by Sheldon Cohen
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine by François Gravel
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Les Enfants d'Aataentsic : l'histoire du peuple huron by Bruce G. Trigger, trans. by Jean-Paul Sainte-Marie et Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan

1992
Fiction:  The English patient : a novel by Michael Ondaatje
Poetry:  Inventing the hawk by Lorna Crozier
Drama:  Possible worlds; and A short history of night by John Mighton
Nonfiction:  Revenge of the land : a century of greed, tragedy and murder on a Saskatchewan farm by Maggie Siggins
Children's Literature - Text: Hero of lesser causes by Julie Johnston
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Waiting for the whales by Sheryl McFarlane ; illustrated by Ron Lightburn
Translation (from French to English):  Imagining the Middle East by Thierry Hentsch ; trans. by Fred A. Reed
Romans et nouvelles:  L'enfant chargé de songes : roman by Anne Hébert
Poésie:  Andromède attendra by Gilles Cyr
Théâtre:  Les petits orteils by Louis-Dominique Lavigne
Études et essais:  La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James by Pierre Turgeon
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Victor by Christiane Duchesne
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Simon et la ville de carton by Gilles Tibo
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  La mémoire postmoderne. Essai sur l'art canadien contemporain by Mark A. Cheetham, trans. by Jean Papineau

1993
Fiction:  The stone diaries by Carol Shields
Poetry:  Forests of the medieval world by Don Coles
Drama:  Fronteras Americanas by Guillermo Verdecchia
Nonfiction:  Touch the dragon : a Thai journal by Karen Connelly
Children's Literature - Text: Some of the kinder planets by Tim Wynne-Jones
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Sleep tight Mrs. Ming by Sharon Jennings ; illustrated by Mireille Levert
Translation (from French to English):  Categorics one, two and three by Normand de Bellefeuille, trans. by D.G. Jones
Romans et nouvelles:  Cantique des plaines by Nancy Huston
Poésie:  Le Saut de l'ange by Denise Desautels
Théâtre:  Celle-là by Daniel Danis
Études et essais:  Les Littératures de l'exiguïté by François Paré
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  La Route de Chlifa by Michèle Marineau
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Le Monde selon Jean de ... by Jean de La Fontaine, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  L'Oeuvre du Gallois by Robert Walshe, trans. by Marie José Thériault

1994
Fiction:  A discovery of strangers by Rudy Wiebe
Poetry:  Cantos from a small room by Robert Hilles
Drama:  The Ends of the Earth by Morris Panych
Nonfiction:  Rogue primate : an exploration of human domestication by John A. Livingston
Children's Literature - Text: Adam and Eve and Pinch-me by Julie Johnston
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Josepha : a prairie boy's story by Jim McGugan, illustrated by Murray Kimber
Translation (from French to English):  The lyric generation : the life and times of the baby boomers by Francois Ricard, trans. by Donald Winkler
Romans et nouvelles:  Le Petit aigle à tête blanche by Robert Lalonde
Poésie:  Aknos by Fulvio Caccia
Théâtre:  French town by Michel Ouellette
Études et essais:  Du sida by Chantal Saint-Jarre
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte : Une belle journée pour mourir by Suzanne Martel
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations : Mon chien est un éléphant by Rémy Simard, illustrated by Pierre Pratt
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Le mythe du sauvage by Olive Patricia Dickason, trans. by Jude Des Chênes

1995
Fiction:  The roaring girl : stories by Greg Hollingshead
Poetry:  Voice by Anne Szumigalski
Drama:  Three in the back, two in the head : a play by Jason Sherman
Nonfiction:  Shadow maker : the life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
Children's Literature - Text: The maestro by Tim Wynne-Jones
Children's Literature - Illustration:  The last quest of Gilgamesh by Ludmila Zeman
Translation (from French to English):  Why must a Black writer write about sex? by Dany Laferrière, trans. by David Homel
Romans et nouvelles:  Les oiseaux de Saint-John Perse by Nicole Houde
Poésie:  Pour orchestre et poète seul by Émile Martel
Théâtre:  Les quatre morts de Marie by Carole Fréchette
Études et essais:  Louis-Antoine Dessaulles : un seigneur libéral et anticlérical by Yvan Lamonde
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Comme une peau de chagrin by Sonia Sarfati
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Sho et les dragons d'eau by Annouchka Gravel Galouchko
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Entre l'ordre et la liberté by Gérald Bernier and Daniel Salée, trans. by Hervé Juste

1996
Fiction:  The Englishman's boy by Guy Vanderhaege
Poetry:  Apostrophes : woman at a piano by E. D. Blodgett
Drama:  The monument by Colleen Wagner
Nonfiction:  The unconscious civilization by John Raulston Saul
Children's Literature - Text:  Ghost train by Paul Yee
Children's Literature - Illustration: The rooster's gift by Pam Conrad, illustrated by Eric Beddows
Translation (from French to English):  Stone and ashes by Daniel Danis, trans. by Linda Gaboriau
Romans et nouvelles:  Soifs by Marie-Claire Blais
Poésie:  Le Quatuor de l'errance followed by La Traversée du désert by Serge Patrice Thibodeau
Théâtre:  Le Passage de l'Indiana by Normand Chaurette
Études et essais:  Le Naufrage de l'université-Et autres essais d'épistomologie politique by Michel Freitag
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Noémie-Le Secret de Madame Lumbago by Gilles Tibo
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Systèmes de survie-Dialogue sur les fondements moraux du commerce et de la politique by Jane Jacobs , trans. by Christian Teasdale (English version)

1997
Fiction:  The underpainter by Jane Urquhart
Poetry:  Land to light on by Dionne Brand
Drama:  fareWel by Ian Ross
Nonfiction:  Drumblair : memories of a Jamaican childhood by Rachel Manley
Children's Literature - Text: Awake and dreaming by Kit Pearson
Children's Literature - Illustration:  The party by Barbara Reid
Translation (from French to English):  The euguelion by Louky Bersianik, trans. by Howard Scott
Romans et nouvelles:  Cet imperceptible mouvement by Aude
Poésie:  Romans-fleuves by Pierre Nepveu
Théâtre:  Dits et Inédits by Yvan Bienvenue
Études et essais:  Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes - Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne by Roland Viau
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Pien by Michel Noël
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Poil de serpent, dent d'araignée, by Danielle Marcotte, illustrated by Stéphane Poulin
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Arracher les montagnes by Neil Bissoondath, trans. by Marie José Thériault (English version)

1998
Fiction:  Forms of devotion by Diane Schoemperlen
Poetry:  White stone : the Alice poems by Stephanie Bolster
Drama:  Harlem duet by Djanet Sears
Nonfiction:  Lines on the water : a fisherman's life on the Miramichi by David Adams Richards
Children's Literature - Text: The hollow tree by Janet Lunn
Children's Literature - Illustration: A child's treasury of nursery rhymes by Kady MacDonald Denton
Translation (from French to English):  Bambi and me (Les vues animées : récits) by Michel Tremblay, trans. by Sheila Fischman
Romans et nouvelles:  La Terre ferme by Christiane Frenette
Poésie:  La Part de feu preceded by Le Deuil de la rancune by Suzanne Jacob
Théâtre:  15 secondes by François Archambault
Études et essais:  Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques by Pierre Nepveu
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Variations sur un même t'aime by Angèle Delaunois
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Monsieur Ilétaitunefois by Rémy Simard, illustrated by Pierre Pratt
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Les Sources du moi - La Formation de l'identité moderne by Charles Taylor, trans. by Charlotte Melançon (English version)

1999
Fiction:  Elizabeth and after by Matt Cohen
Poetry:  Songs for relinquishing the earth by Jan Zwicky
Drama:  The drawer boy by Michael Healey
Nonfiction:  Water : why you should worry by Marq de Villiers
Children's Literature - Text: A screaming kind of day by Rachna Gilmore
Children's Literature - Illustration: The Great Poochini by Gary Clement
Translation (from French to English): Gabrielle Roy : a life by François Ricard, trans. by Patricia Claxton
Romans et nouvelles:  La Danse juive by Lise Tremblay
Poésie:  Conversations by Herménégilde Chiasson
Théâtre:  Il n'y a que l'amour by Jean-Marc Dalpé
Études et essais:  Le Mal du Nord by Pierre Perrault
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  La Liberté? Connais pas... by Charlotte Gingras
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Charlotte et l'île du destin by Olivier Lasser, illustrated by Stéphane Jorish
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Transfiguration by E. D. Blodgett and Jacques Brault, trans. by Jacques Brault

2000
Fiction:  Anil's ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Poetry:  Another gravity by Don McKay
Drama:  Elizabeth Rex by Timoth Findley
Nonfiction:  Notes from the Hyena's belly : an Ethiopian boyhood by Nega Mezlekia
Children's Literature - Text: Looking for X by Deborah Ellis
Children's Literature - Illustration: Yuck, a love story by Don Gillmor, illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Translation (from French to English): Just fine : a novel by France Daigle, trans. by Robert Majzels
Romans et nouvelles:  Un vent se lève qui éparpille by Jean-Marc Dalpé
Poésie:  La Marche de l'aveugle das son chien by Normand de Bellefeuille
Théâtre:  Littoral by Wajdi Mouawad
Études et essais:  Genèse des nations et cultures du nouveau monde : essai d'histoire comparée by Gérard Bouchard
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Un été de Jade by Charlotte Gingras
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  L'écharpe rouge by Anne Villeneuve
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Un parfum de cèdre by Ann-Marie MacDonald, trans. by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné

2001
Fiction:  Clara Callan : a novel by Richard B. Wright
Poetry:  Execution poems by George Elliott Clarke
Drama:  The harps of God by Kent Stetson
Nonfiction:  The ingenuity gap by Thomas Homer-Dixon
Children's Literature - Text: Dust by Arthur Slade
Children's Literature - Illustration: An island in the soup by Mireille Levert
Translation (from French to English): Fairy ring by Martine Desjardins ; translated by Fred A. Reed and David Homel
Romans et nouvelles:  Le ravissement by Andrée A. Michaud
Poésie:  Des ombres portées by Paul Chanel Malenfant
Théâtre:  Le Petit Köchel by Normand Chaurette
Études et essais:  Quel Canada pour les Autochtones? La fin de l'exclusion by Renée Dupuis
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Jomusch et le troll des cuisines by Christiane Duchesne
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Fidèles éléphants by Yukio Tsuchiya, illustrated by Bruce Roberts (English version)
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  No logo : la tyrannie des marques by Naomi Klein, translated by Michel Saint-Germain (English version)

2002
Fiction:  A song for Nettie Johnson by Gloria Sawai
Poetry:  Surrender by Roy Miki
Drama:  Unity (1918) by Kevin Kerr
Nonfiction:  Saboteurs : Wiebo Ludwig's war against big oil by Andrew Nikiforuk
Children's Literature - Text: True confessions of a heartless girl : a novel by Martha Brooks
Children's Literature - Illustration: Alphabeasts by Wallace Edwards
Translation (from French to English): Thunder and light by Marie-Claire Blais ; translated by Nigel Spencer
Romans et nouvelles:  La Gloire de Cassiodore : roman by Monique LaRue
Poésie:  Humains paysages en temps de paix relative : poésie by Robert Dickson
Théâtre:  Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche by Daniel Danis
Études et essais:  Mark Twain et la parole noire by Judith Lavoie
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  L’oiseau de passage by Hélène Vachon
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Le grand voyage de Monsieur by Gilles Tibo, illustrated by Luc Melanson
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat by Elizabeth Abbott, translated by Paule Pierre-Noyart (English version)

2003
Fiction:  Elle by Douglas Glover
Poetry:  Kill-site by Tim Lilburn
Drama:  Einstein’s gift by Vern Thiessen
Nonfiction:  Paris 1919 : six months that changed the world by Margaret MacMillan
Children's Literature - Text: Stitches by Glen Huser
Children's Literature - Illustration:  The song within my heart, illustrated by Allen Sapp; text by Dave Bouchard
Translation (from French to English):  Memoirs of a less travelled road : a historian’s life by Marcel Trudel; translated by Jane Brierley
Romans et nouvelles:  La maison étrangère by Élise Turcotte
Poésie:  Lignes aériennes by Pierre Nepveu
Théâtre:  Deux pas vers les étoiles by Jean-Rock Gaudreault
Études et essais:  Raconter et mourir : aux sources narratives de l’imaginaire occidental by Thierry Hentsch
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  J’ai vendu ma soeur by Danielle Simard
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Recette d’éléphant à la sauce vieux pneu, Virginie Egger; text by Carole Tremblay
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Un amour de Salomé by Linda Leith; translated by Agnès Guitard

2004
Fiction:  A complicated kindness : a novel by Miriam Toews
Poetry:  Short journey upriver toward Ōishida by Roo Borson
Drama:  Girl in the goldfish bowl by Morris Panych
Nonfiction:  Shake hands with the Devil : the failure of humanity in Rwanda by Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire
Children's Literature - Text:  Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll, illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch
Translation (from French to English):  Mirabel by Pierre Nepveu ; translated by Judith Cown
Romans et nouvelles:  Le cercle parfait by Pascale Quiviger
Poésie:  Les jours à vif by André Brochu
Théâtre:  L'intimité by Emma Haché
Études et essais:  La Réduction : l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui by Jean-Jacques Simard
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  L’Hiver de Léo Polatouche by Nicole Leroux
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Nul poisson où aller by Marie-Francine Hébert ; illustrations by Janice Nadeau
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Les Indes accidentelles by Robert Finley ; translated by Ivan Steenhout

2005
Fiction:  A perfect night to go to China by David Gilmour
Poetry:  Processional by Anne Compton
Drama:  Half life by John Mighton
Nonfiction:  The golden spruce : a true story of myth, madness, and greed by John Vaillant
Children's Literature - Text:  The crazy man by Pamela Porter
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Imagine a day by Sarah L. Thomson ; illustrated by Rob Gonsalves
Translation (from French to English):  Truth or death : the quest for immortality in the western narrative tradition by Thierry Hentsch ; translated by Fred A. Reed
Romans et nouvelles:  Hotaru by Aki Shimazaki
Poésie:  Vingtièmes siècles by Jean-Marc Desgent
Théâtre:  Le Pays des genoux by Geneviève Billette
Études et essais:  Quand la nation débordait les frontières : les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx by Michel Bock
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Le ricanement des hyènes by Camille Bouchard
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Le cœur de monsieur Gauguin by Marie-Danielle Croteau ; illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Glenn Gould : une vie by Kevin Bazzana ; translated by Rachel Martinez (English version)

2006
Fiction:  The law of dreams by Peter Behrens
Poetry:  Stumbling in the bloom by John Pass
Drama:  I still love you : five plays by Daniel MacIvor
Nonfiction:  The judgment of Paris : the revolutionary decade that gave the world impressionism by Ross King
Children's Literature - Text:  Pirate's passage by William Gilkerson ; illustrated by the author
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Ancient thunder by Leo Yerxa ; illustrated by the author
Translation (from French to English):  Vétiver by Joël Des Rosiers ; translated by Hugh Hazelton
Romans et nouvelles:  La rivière du loup by Andrée Laberge
Poésie:  Ravir : les lieux by Hélène Dorion
Théâtre:   Désordre public by Évelyne de la Chenelière
Études et essais:   À force de voir : histoire de regards by Pierre Ouellet
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Je suis fou de Vava by Dany Laferrière
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Le gros monstre qui aimait trop lire by Lili Chartrand ; illustrated by Rogé (Roger Girard)
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Un jardin de papier by Sophie Voillot

2007
Fiction:  Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
Poetry:  All our wonder unavenged by Don Domanski
Drama:  The December man by Colleen Murphy
Nonfiction:  I've got a home in glory land : a lost tale of the underground railroad by Karolyn Smardz Frost
Children's Literature - Text:  Gemini summer by Iain Lawrence
Children's Literature - Illustration:  The boy from the sun by Duncan Weller ; illustrated by the author
Translation (from French to English):  Augustino and the Choir of Destruction by Marie-Claire Blais ; translated by Nigel Spencer
Romans et nouvelles:  La mer de la Tranquillité by Sylvain Trudel
Poésie:  Seul on est by Serge Patrice Thibodeau
Théâtre:  Le chant du Dire-Dire by Daniel Danis
Études et essais:  La querelle du régionalisme au Québec (1904-1931) : vers l’autonomisation de la littérature québécoise by Annette Hayward
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  La fatigante et le fainéant by François Barcelo
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  La petite rapporteuse de mots by Danielle Simard ; illustrated by Geneviève Côté
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Dernières notes by Tamas Dobozy ; translated by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné

2008
Fiction:  The origin of species by Nino Ricci
Poetry:  Move to keep us warm by Jacob Scheier
Drama:  Bone cage by Catherine Banks
Nonfiction:  Fifteen days : stories of bravery, friendship, life and death from inside the new Canadian Army by Christie Blatchford
Children's Literature - Text:  The landing : a novel by John Ibbitson
Children's Literature - Illustration:  The owl and the pussycat by Edward Lear ; illustration by Stéphane Jorisch
Translation (from French to English):  Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner ; translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Romans et nouvelles:  Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments by Marie-Claire Blais
Poésie:  La lenteur du monde by Michel Pleau
Théâtre:  La liste by Jennifer Tremblay
Études et essais:  Hors-temps : poétique de la posthistoire by Pierre Ouellet
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Les trois lieues by Sylvie Desrosiers
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Ma meilleure amie by Gille Tibo ; illustrated by Janice Nadeau
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Tracey en mille morceaux by Maureen Medved ; translated by Claire Chabalier and Louise Chabalier

2009
Fiction:  The mistress of nothing by Kate Pullinger
Poetry:  The fly in autumn by David Zieroth
Drama:  Where the blood mixes by Kevin Loring
Nonfiction:  A place within : rediscovering India by M. G. Vassanji
Children's Literature - Text:  Greener grass : the famine years by Caroline Pignat
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Bella's tree by Janet Russell ; illustration by Jirina Marton
Translation (from French to English):  Pieces of me by Charlotte Gingras ; translated by Susan Ouriou
Romans et nouvelles:  Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot by Julie Mazzieri
Poésie:  Thérèse pour joie et orchestre by Hélène Monette
Théâtre:  Le bruit des os qui craquent by Suzanne Lebeau
Études et essais:  Pointe Maligne : l'infiniment oubliée by Nicole V. Champeau
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Harvey by Hervé Bouchard
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Harvey by Hervé Bouchard ; illustrated by Janice Nadeau
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Le miel d’Harar by Camilla Gibb ; translated by Paule Noyart

2010
Fiction:  Cool water by Dianne Warren ("Juliet in August" : American title)
Poetry:  Boxing the compass by Richard Greene
Drama:  Afterimage by Robert Chafe
Nonfiction:  Lakeland : journeys into the soul of Canada by Allan Casey
Children's Literature - Text:  Fishtailing by Wendy Phillips
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Cats' night out by Caroline Stutson ; illustrated by J. Klassen
Translation (from French to English):  Forests by Wajdi Mouawad ; translated by Linda Gaboriau
Romans et nouvelles:  Ru by Kim Thúy
Poésie:  effleurés de lumière by Danielle Fournier
Théâtre:  Porc-épic by David Paquet
Études et essais:  C'est ma seigneurie que je réclame : la lutte des Hurons de Lorette pour la seigneurie de Sillery, 1650-1900 by Michel Lavoie
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Rose : derrière le rideau de la folie by Élise Turcotte
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Rose : derrière le rideau de la folie by Élise Turcotte ; illustrated by Daniel Sylvestre
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Le cafard by Rawi Hage ; translated by Sophie Voillot

2011
Fiction:  The Sisters brothers by Patrick deWitt
Poetry:  Killdeer by Phil Hall
Drama:  If we were birds by Erin Shields
Nonfiction:  Mordecai : the life & times by Charles Foran
Children's Literature - Text:  From then to now : a short history of the world by Christopher Moore ; illustrated by Andrej Krystoforski
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Ten birds, written and illustrated by Cybèle Young
Translation (from French to English):  Partita for Glenn Gould : an inquiry into the nature of genius by Georges Leroux ; translated by Donald Winkler
Romans et nouvelles:  L’homme blanc by Perrine Leblanc
Poésie:  Plus haut que les flammes by Louise Dupré
Théâtre:  Ce qui meurt en dernier by Normand Chaurette
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Les aventures de Radisson -1. L’enfer ne brûle pas by Martin Fournier
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Lili et les poilus, written and illustrated by Caroline Merola
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Toxique ou l’incident dans l’autobus by Greg MacArthur ; translated by Maryse Warda

2012
Fiction:  The purchase by Linda Spalding
Poetry:  Monkey ranch : poems by Julie Bruck
Drama:  It is solved by walking by Catherine Banks
Nonfiction:  Leonardo and the Last Supper by Ross King
Children's Literature - Text:  The reluctant journal of Henry K. Larsen by Susin Nielsen
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Virginia Wolf by Kyo Maclear ; illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Translation (from French to English):  Mai at the predators' ball by Marie-Claire Blais ; translated by Nigel Spencer
Romans et nouvelles:  Pour sûr by France Daigle
Poésie:  Un drap. Une place. by Maude Smith Gagnon
Théâtre:  Contre le temps by Geneviève Billette
Essais:  Comment tuer Shakespeare by Normand Chaurette
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Un été d’amour et de cendres by Aline Apostolska
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  La clé à molette written and illustrated by Élise Gravel
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Glenn Gould by Mark Kingwell ; translated by Alain Roy

2013
Fiction:  The luminaries : a novel by Eleanor Catton
Poetry:  North End love songs by Katherena Vermette
Drama:  Fault lines : three plays by Nicolas Billon
Nonfiction:  Journey with no maps : a life of P. K. Page by Sandra Djwa
Children's Literature - Text:  The unlikely hero of room 13B by Teresa Toten
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Northwest passage by Stan Rogers ; illustrated by Matt James
Translation (from French to English):  The major verbs by Pierre Nepveu ; translated by David Winkler
Romans et nouvelles:  Quand les guêpes se taisent by Stéphanie Pelletier
Poésie:  Pour les désespéres seulement by René Lapierre
Théâtre:  Bienveillance by Fanny Britt
Essais:  Aimer, enseigner by Yvon Rivard
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  À l’ombre de la grande maison by Geneviève Mativat
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Jane, le renard & moi by Fanny Britt ; illustrated by Isabelle Arsenault
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  L’enfant du jeudi by Alison Pick ; translated by Sophie Voillot (English title: Far to go)

2014
Fiction:  The back of the turtle : a novel by Thomas King
Poetry:  Lake of two mountains by Arleen Paré
Drama:  Age of minority : three solo plays by Jordan Tannahill
Nonfiction:  The end of absence : reclaiming what we've lost in a world of constant connection by Michael Harris
Children's Literature - Text:  When everything feels like the movies by Raziel Reid
Children's Literature - Illustration:  This one summer by Mariko Tamaki ; illustrated by Jillian Tamaki
Translation (from French to English):  Paul-Émile Borduas : a critical biography by François-Marc Gagnon ; translated by Peter Feldstein
Romans et nouvelles:  Bondrée by Andrée A. Michaud
Poésie:  Anarchie de la lumière by José Acquelin
Théâtre:  Small talk by Carole Fréchette
Essais:  Tenir tête by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Le jardin d'Amsterdam by Linda Amyot
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Le lion et l'oiseau, text and illustrations by Marianne Dubuc
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  L'Indien malcommode : un portrait inattendu des Autochtones d'Amérique du Nord by Thomas King ; translated by Daniel Poliquin (English title: The inconvenient Indian : a curious account of native people in North America)

2015
Fiction:  Daddy Lenin and other stories by Guy Vanderhaeghe
Poetry:  My shoes are killing me : poems by Robyn Sarah
Drama:  carried away on the crest of a wave by David Yee
Nonfiction:  Bee time : lessons from the hive by Mark L. Winston
Children's Literature - Text:  The gospel truth by Caroline Pignat
Children's Literature - Illustration:  Sidewalk flowers by JonArno Lawson & Sydney Smith
Translation (from French to English):  Twenty-one cardinals by Jocelyne Saucier ; translated by Rhonda Mullins
Romans et nouvelles:  Six degrés de liberté by Nicolas Dickner
Poésie:  Le mal du pays est un art oublié by Joël Pourbaix
Théâtre:  Pour réussir un poulet by Fabien Cloutier
Essais:  Honoré Beaugrand : la plume et l'épée (1848-1906) by Jean-Philippe Warren
Littérature de jeunesse - Texte:  Marie Réparatrice by Louis-Philippe Hébert
Littérature de jeunesse - Illustrations:  Le voleur de sandwichs by Patrick Doyon and André Marois
Traduction (de l'anglais au français):  Solomon Gursky by Mordecai Richler ; translated by Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné

2016
Fiction:  Do not say we have nothing : a novel by Madeleine Thien
Poetry:  The waking comes late by Steven Heighton
Drama:  Pig girl by Colleen Murphy
Nonfiction:  A world we have lost : Saskatchewan before 1905 by Bill Waiser
Young people's literature - Text:  Calvin : a novel by Martine Leavitt
Young people's literature - Illustrated books:  Tokyo digs a garden by Jon-Erik Lappano ; illustrated by Kellen Hatanaka
Translation (from French to English):  The Party Wall by Catherine Leroux ; translated by Lazer Lederhendler

2017
Fiction:  We'll all be burnt in our beds some night : a novel by Joel Thomas Hynes
Poetry:  On not losing my father's ashes in the flood : poems by Richard Harrison
Drama:  Indian arm by Hiro Kanagawa, adapted from Little Eyolf by Henrik Ibsen
Nonfiction:  The way of the strangers : encounters with the Islamic state by Graeme Wood
Young people's literature - Text:  The marrow thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Young people's literature - Illustrated books:  When we were alone by David Alexander Robertson ; illustrated by Julie Flett
Translation (from French to English): Readopolis by Bertrand Laverdure ; translated by Oana Avasilichioaei