Jack Wong (writer)

Jack Wong is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books.^[1] He is most noted as a winner of the Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration at the 2023 Governor General's Awards for When You Can Swim,^[2] and the Ann Connor Brimer Award at the 2024 Atlantic Book Awards for The Words We Share.^[3]

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia,^[1] he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 2010 to attend NSCAD University after deciding to abandon his career in engineering to study art.^[4]

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Year	Award	Category	Work	Result	Ref.
2023	Governor General's Awards	English-language Children's Illustration	When You Can Swim	Winner	^[2]
2024	Atlantic Book Awards	Ann Conner Brimer Award	The Words We Share	Winner	^[3]
2024	Forest of Reading	Blue Spruce Award	The Words We Share	Finalist	^[5]

v t e Winners of the Governor General's Award for young people's literature — illustrated books
1980s	Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic (1987) Kim LaFave, Amos's Sweater (1988) Robin Muller, The Magic Paintbrush (1989)
1990s	Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy (1990) Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says Yes (1991) Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales (1992) Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming (1993) Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story (1994) Ludmila Zeman, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh (1995) Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift (1996) Barbara Reid, The Party (1997) Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes (1998) Gary Clement, The Great Poochini (1999)
2000s	Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, A Love Story (2000) Mireille Levert, An Island in the Soup (2001) Wallace Edwards, Alphabeasts (2002) Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart (2003) Stéphane Jorisch, Jabberwocky (2004) Rob Gonsalves, Imagine a Day (2005) Leo Yerxa, Ancient Thunder (2006) Duncan Weller, The Boy from the Sun (2007) Stéphane Jorisch, The Owl and the Pussycat (2008) Jirina Marton, Bella's Tree (2009)
2010s	Jon Klassen, Cats' Night Out (2010) Cybèle Young, Ten Birds (2011) Isabelle Arsenault, Virginia Wolf (2012) Matt James, Northwest Passage (2013) Jillian Tamaki, This One Summer (2014) JonArno Lawson, Sidewalk Flowers (2015) Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden (2016) David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone (2017) Jillian Tamaki, They Say Blue (2018) Sydney Smith, Small in the City (2019)
2020s	The Fan Brothers, The Barnabus Project (2020) David A. Robertson and Julie Flett, On the Trapline (2021) Naseem Hrab and Nahid Kazemi, The Sour Cherry Tree (2022) Jack Wong, When You Can Swim (2023) Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, Skating Wild on an Inland Sea (2024) Tonya Simpson and Delrée Dumont, This Land Is a Lullaby (2025)

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Jack Wong (writer)

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