2015 Governor General's Awards

The shortlisted nominees for the 2015 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 7, 2015,^[1] and the winners were announced on October 28.

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Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Guy Vanderhaeghe, Daddy Lenin and Other Stories	Kate Cayley, How You Were Born Rachel Cusk, Outline Helen Humphreys, The Evening Chorus Clifford Jackman, The Winter Family
Non-fiction	Mark L. Winston, Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive	Ted Bishop, The Social Life of Ink: Culture, Wonder, and Our Relationship with the Written Word David Halton, Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War Michael Harris, Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover Armand Garnet Ruffo, Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
Poetry	Robyn Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me	Kayla Czaga, For Your Safety Please Hold On Liz Howard, Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent M. Travis Lane, Crossover Patrick Lane, Washita
Drama	David Yee, carried away on the crest of a wave	Beth Graham, The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble Tara Grammy and Tom Arthur Davis, Mahmoud Bryden MacDonald, Odd Ducks Marcus Youssef and James Long, Winners and Losers
Children's literature	Caroline Pignat, The Gospel Truth	Dan Bar-el, Audrey (cow) Darren Groth, Are You Seeing Me? Susin Nielsen, We Are All Made of Molecules Emil Sher, Young Man with Camera
Children's illustration	JonArno Lawson and Sydney Smith, Sidewalk Flowers	Andy Jones and Darka Erdelji, Jack, the King of Ashes Kyo Maclear and Marion Arbona, The Good Little Book John Martz, A Cat Named Tim and Other Stories Mélanie Watt, Bug in a Vacuum
French to English translation	*Rhonda Mullins, Twenty-One Cardinals* (Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine)**	David Scott Hamilton, Captive (Claudine Dumont, Anabiose) Lazer Lederhendler, The Lake (Perrine Leblanc, Malabourg) Susan Ouriou and Christelle Morelli, Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women (Emmanuelle Walter, Sœurs volées: Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada) Donald Winkler, Arvida (Samuel Archibald, Arvida)

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Nicolas Dickner, Six degrés de liberté	Françoise de Luca, Sena Marilyne Fortin, La Fabrica Catherine Harton, Traité des peaux Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon
Non-fiction	Jean-Philippe Warren, Honoré Beaugrand : La plume et l'épée (1848-1906)	Alain Asselin, Jacques Cayouette and Jacques Mathieu, Curieuses histoires de plantes du Canada, tome 1 Ying Chen, La lenteur des montagnes Chantal Savoie, Les femmes de lettres canadiennes-françaises au tournant du XXe siècle Patricia Smart, De Marie de l'Incarnation à Nelly Arcan; Se dire, se faire par l'écriture intime
Poetry	Joël Pourbaix, Le mal du pays est un art oublié	Martine Audet, Tête première / Dos / Contre dos François Baril Pelletier, Les trésors tamisés Jean-Philippe Dupuis, Langue maternelle René Lapierre, La carte des feux
Drama	Fabien Cloutier, Pour réussir un poulet	Simon Boudreault, En cas de pluie, aucun remboursement Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Jouez, Monsieur Molière! Annick Lefebvre, J'accuse Olivier Sylvestre, La beauté du monde
Children's literature	Louis-Philippe Hébert, Marie Réparatrice	Camille Bouchard, Les Forces du désordre Denis Côté, Dessine-moi un martien Roger Des Roches, Boîtamémoire Sandra Dussault, Direction Saint-Creux-des-Meuh-Meuh
Children's illustration	André Marois and Patrick Doyon, Le voleur de sandwichs	Jacques Goldstyn, L'arbragan Mireille Levert, Quand j'écris avec mon cœur Mélanie Perreault and Marion Arbona, Rosalie entre chien et chat Renée Robitaille and Philippe Béha, Douze oiseaux
English to French translation	*Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Solomon Gursky* (Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here)**	Christiane Duchesne, Élisabeth dans le pétrin (Susan Glickman, Bernadette in the Doghouse) Catherine Ego, Voisins et ennemis. La Guerre de sécession et l'invention du Canada (John Boyko, Blood and Daring : How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation) Marie Frankland, MxT (Sina Queyras, MxT) Rachel Martinez, Ma vie (racontée malgré moi) par Henry K. Larsen (Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen)

v t e Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit
English-language awards	Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1937–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration French to English translation
French-language awards	Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1959–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration English to French translation
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2015 Governor General's Awards

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