Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

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Template:Short description The Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in English. Since 1987[1] it is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. Originally presented by the Canadian Authors Association,Template:Clarify the Governor General's Awards program became a project of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1959.[2]

The program was created in 1937 and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards.[1] Beginning in 1942 there were two winners annually, with separate awards presented for creative non-fiction and academic non-fiction;[3] however, this was discontinued after the 1958 awards, and then returned to a single non-fiction category.

The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Since then, the advance shortlist has numbered three to five.

Winners and nominees

1930s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1936-1939[4]
Year Author Title
1936 Template:Sortname TBR: Newspaper Pieces
1937 Template:Sortname My Discovery of the West
1938 Template:Sortname Canadian Mosaic
1939 Template:Sortname Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter

1940s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1940-1949[4]
Year Author Title
1940 Template:Sortname Slava Bohu
1941 Template:Sortname Klee Wyck
1942 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1943 Template:Sortname On Canadian Poetry
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1944 Template:Sortname Partner in Three Worlds
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1945 Template:Sortname Gauntlet to Overlord
Template:Sortname We Keep a Light
1946 Template:Sortname In Search of Myself
Template:Sortname Colony to Nation
1947 Template:Sortname Haida
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1948 Template:Sortname Halifax, Warden of the North
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1949 Template:Sortname Cross-country
Template:Sortname Democratic Government in Canada

1950s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1950-1959[4]
Year Author Title
1950 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
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1951 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
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1952 Template:Sortname John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1953 Template:Sortname Canada, A Story of Challenge
Template:Sortname Sex and the Nature of Things
1954 Template:Sortname Thirty and Three
Template:Sortname This Most Famous Stream
1955 Template:Sortname Man's Emerging Mind
Template:Sortname John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain
1956 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Century of Conflict
1957 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Canada: Tomorrow's Giant
1958 Template:Sortname Klondike
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1959 No award presented

1960s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1960-1969[4]
Year Author Title
1960 Template:Sortname In Search of Canadian Liberalism
1961 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1962 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1963 Template:Sortname Brown of the Globe
1964 Template:Sortname John Addington Symonds
1965 Template:Sortname In Defence of Canada
1966 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1967 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1968 Template:Sortname Hunting Tigers Under Glass
1969 No award presented

1970s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1970-1979[4]
Year Author Title
1970 No award presented
1971 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1972 No award presented
1973 Template:Sortname Painters in a New Land
1974 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1975 Template:Sortname and Anthony Adamson Hallowed Walls
1976 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1977 Template:Sortname Essays on the Constitution
1978 Template:Sortname Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars
1979 Template:Sortname Emily Carr
Template:Sortname and William Kilbourn C.D. Howe
Template:Sortname and John Richards Prairie Capitalism

1980s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1980-1989[4]
Year Author Title
1980 Template:Sortname Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname Portrait of a People
Template:Sortname Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector
1981 Template:Sortname Caribou and the Barren-Lands
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life
1982 Template:Sortname Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Grits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal Party
1983 Template:Sortname Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Reading from Left to Right: One Man's Political History
1984 Sandra Gwyn Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname and Rod Macleod Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion
Template:Sortname P.Q.: René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power
1985 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism
Template:Sortname Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1986 Template:Sortname Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Melanie Klein
Template:Sortname Home
1987 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Under Eastern Eyes
Template:Sortname Brazilian Journal
1988 Template:Sortname In the Sleep Room
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname When Freedoms Collide
Template:Sortname Fishing with John
1989 Template:Sortname Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
Template:Sortname Wombs and Alien Spirits
Template:Sortname Wordstruck
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname

1990s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 1990-1999[4]
Year Author Title
1990 Template:Sortname and Christina McCall Trudeau and Our Times
Template:Sortname Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname God's Dominion: A Sceptic's Quest
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1991 Template:Sortname and Robert Calihoo Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
Template:Sortname Words With Power
Template:Sortname Zero Hour
Template:Sortname Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre"
Template:Sortname By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life
1992 Template:Sortname Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
Template:Sortname Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal
Template:Sortname Inside: The Biography of John Gunther
Template:Sortname Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman
1993 Template:Sortname Touch the Dragon
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname In a Gilded Cage
Template:Sortname Systems of Survival
Template:Sortname Frontiers
1994 Template:Sortname Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life-An Interpretation
1995 Template:Sortname Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Shooting the Hippo
Template:Sortname Leaning on the Wind
1996 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile, Time, Mind
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
1997 Template:Sortname Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
Template:Sortname One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
Template:Sortname Morgentaler: A Difficult Hero
Template:Sortname This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape
Template:Sortname and Bill Waiser Loyal Till Death: Indians and the North-West Rebellion
1998 Template:Sortname Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Mrs. King: The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
Template:Sortname Mamie's Children: Three Generations of Prairie Women
Template:Sortname and Yvonne Johnson Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman
1999 Template:Sortname Water
Template:Sortname Surpassing Wonder
Template:Sortname William Osler
Template:Sortname Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
Template:Sortname Baltimore's Mansion

2000s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 2000-2009[4]
Year Author Title Ref.
2000 Template:Sortname Notes from the Hyena's Belly
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname River in a Dry Land
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
2001 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft
Template:Sortname Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
2002 Template:Sortname Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
Template:Sortname Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
Template:Sortname Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land
Template:Sortname When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing
Template:Sortname Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness
2003 Template:Sortname Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
Template:Sortname Vancouver, for Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
Template:Sortname Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
2004 Template:Sortname Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Template:Sortname I'll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers
Template:Sortname Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
Template:Sortname Dark Age Ahead
Template:Sortname Wisdom & Metaphor
2005 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname [5]
Template:Sortname Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
2006 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname and Robert Renaud Starlight Tour: The Last, Lonely Night of Neil Stonechild
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
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2007 Template:Sortname I've Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad
Template:Sortname and Christian Pearce Enter the Babylon System: Unpacking Gun Culture from Samuel Colt to 50 Cent
Template:Sortname Citizen of the World: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume One: 1919-1968
Template:Sortname 28: Stories of AIDS in Africa
Template:Sortname Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them
2008 Template:Sortname Fifteen Days: Stories of Bravery, Friendship, Life and Death from Inside the New Canadian Army [6]
Template:Sortname God’s Mercies: Rivalry, Betrayal and the Dream of Discovery
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
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2009 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname [7]
Template:Sortname Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-45
Template:Sortname Grass, Sky, Song: Promise and Peril in the World of Grassland Birds
Template:Sortname American Raj: Liberation or Domination? (Resolving the Conflict Between the West and the Muslim World)
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname

2010s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 2010-2019[4]
Year Author Title Ref.
2010 Template:Sortname Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Burmese Lessons: A Love Story
Template:Sortname Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000
2011 Template:Sortname Mordecai: The Life and Times
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Nation Maker: Sir John A. Macdonald: His Life, Our Times, Volume Two: 1867-1891
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Empire of the Beetle: How Human Folly and a Tiny Bug Are Killing North America's Great Forests
2012 Template:Sortname Leonardo and the Last Supper [8]
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest
Template:Sortname What We Talk About When We Talk About War
2013 Template:Sortname Journey with No Maps: A Life of P.K. Page [9]
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
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Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Projection: Encounters with My Runaway Mother
2014 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname [10]
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Template:Sortname and Alexandra Shimo Up Ghost River: A Chief’s Journey Through the Turbulent Waters of Native History
Template:Sortname Know the Night: A Memoir of Survival in the Small Hours
2015 Template:Sortname Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive [11]
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Dispatches from the Front: Matthew Halton, Canada's Voice at War
Template:Sortname Party of One: Stephen Harper and Canada's Radical Makeover
Template:Sortname Norval Morrisseau: Man Changing into Thunderbird
2016 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (To Everyone)
Template:Sortname In-Between Days: A Memoir about Living with Cancer [12]
Template:Sortname Firewater: How Alcohol is Killing My People (and Yours)
Template:Sortname Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World
2017 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope
Template:Sortname Where It Hurts
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
2018 Template:Sortname Mamaskatch: A Cree Coming of Age [13]
Template:Sortname Dead Reckoning: How I Came To Meet the Man Who Murdered My Father
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
Template:Sortname Heart Berries
Template:Sortname and Winnie Yeung Homes: A Refugee Story
2019 Template:Sortname To the River: Losing My Brother [14]
Template:Sortname Sea Trial: Sailing After My Father
Template:Sortname Tiny Lights for Travellers
Template:Sortname Fryderyk Chopin: A Life and Times
Template:Sortname City of Omens: A Search for the Missing Women of the Borderlands

2020s

Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction winners, 2020-2029[4]
Year Author Title Ref
2020 Template:Sortname Template:Sortname [15]
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname [16]
Template:Sortname Rebent Sinner
Template:Sortname Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability and Making Space
Template:Sortname Shame on Me
2021 Template:Sortname alfabet/alphabet: a memoir of a first language [17]
Template:Sortname What I Remember, What I Know: The Life of a High Arctic Exile [18]
Template:Sortname Revery: A Year of Bees
Template:Sortname Care of: Letters, Connections, and Cures
Template:Sortname Template:Sortname
2022 Template:Sortname Aki-wayn-zih: A Person as Worthy as the Earth [19]
Template:Sortname All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler [20]
Template:Sortname and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Rehearsals for Living
Template:Sortname Persephoneʼs Children: A Life in Fragments
Template:Sortname Generation Dread: Finding Purpose in an Age of Climate Crisis
2023 Template:Sortname Unearthing [21]
Template:Sortname Message in a Bottle [22]
Template:Sortname Gendered Islamophobia: My Journey with a Scar(f)
Template:Sortname Invisible Boy
Template:Sortname Unbroken: My Fight for Survival, Hope, and Justice for Indigenous Women and Girls
2024 Niigaan Sinclair Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre [23]
Helen Knott Becoming a Matriarch [24]
Petra Molnar The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Danny Ramadan Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir
Astra Taylor The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart

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  15. ↑ "Michelle Good says celebrating fiction win feels 'petty and selfish' after residential school discovery". CTV News, June 1, 2021.
  16. ↑ "Francesca Ekwuyasi, Billy-Ray Belcourt & Anne Carson among 2020 Governor General's Literary Awards finalists". CBC Books, May 4, 2021.
  17. ↑ "Inuk author Norma Dunning wins $25K Governor General's fiction prize" Template:Webarchive. Coast Reporter, November 17, 2021.
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  21. ↑ "Anuja Varghese wins Governor General's literary award for fiction". Toronto Star, November 8, 2023.
  22. ↑ "Suzette Mayr, Iain Reid among finalists for Governor General's Literary Awards". Burnaby Now, October 25, 2023.
  23. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Jordan Abel, Niigaan Sinclair among 2024 Governor General’s award winners". Quill & Quire, November 13, 2024.
  24. ↑ Cassandra Drudi, "Canisia Lubrin, Danny Ramadan among 2024 Governor General’s Literary Award finalists". Quill & Quire, October 8, 2024.
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