Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

1954 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Fall of a TitanIgor Gouzenko...Amazon

1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerBurning WaterGeorge BoweringA rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouvers search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in recommended lists of postmodern fiction, BC historical fiction, gay fiction and humour....Amazon1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistFat WomanLeon RookeAmazonThe Charcoal BurnersSusan MusgraveAmazon

2002 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Song for Nettie JohnsonGloria SawaiIn her stunning debut collection of short stories, Gloria Sawai examines the heartbreaking lives of people on the margins. A group of young school students prepares a memorial for the towns deceased doctor, at the inadvertent risk of deeply offending his ...Amazon2002 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistExileAnn IrelandAmazonThe Case of Lena S.David BergenAmazonThe Navigator of New YorkWayne JohnstonAmazonUnlessCarol ShieldsAmazon

2001 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerClara CallanRichard B. WrightRichard B. Wrights celebrated novel is the powerful and moving story of two small-town sisters and their life-changing experiences on the eve of the Second World War. Clara Callan is a masterpiece of fiction that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General...Amazon2001 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDragons CryTessa McWattAmazonLife of PiYann MartelAmazonSalamanderThomas WhartonAmazonThe Stone CarversJane UrquhartAmazon

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerAnil's GhostMichael OndaatjeA breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient. There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph Guardian Anils Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a countr...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistMercy Among the ChildrenDavid Adams RichardsAmazonMonkey BeachEden RobinsonAmazonThe Blind AssassinMargaret AtwoodAmazonThe QuestionAustin ClarkeAmazon

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerElizabeth and AfterMatt CohenA touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his familys legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed ...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistCan You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?Elyse GascoAmazonGloriaKeith MaillardAmazonPool-hopping and Other StoriesAnne FlemingAmazonThe Worlds Within HerNeil BissoondathAmazon

1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerForms of DevotionDiane SchoemperlenDiane Schoemperlens acclaimed In the Language of Love expanded our expectations of the contemporary novel, using everyday words to deconstruct a young womans life and loves. In her new short story collection, Forms of Devotion, she again tests the bounds...Amazon1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistStrange HeavenLynn CoadyAmazonThe Colony of Unrequited DreamsWayne JohnstonAmazonThe Electrical FieldKerri SakamotoAmazonThe White BoneBarbara GowdyAmazon

1997 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe UnderpainterJane UrquhartThe Underpainter is a novel of interwoven lives in which the world of art collides with the realm of human emotion. It is the story of Austin Fraser, an American painter now in his later years, who is haunted by memories of those whose lives most deeply to...Amazon1997 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistFirst Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of WomenEric McCormackAmazonLast SeenMatt CohenAmazonSmall ChangeElizabeth HayAmazonThe Two-Headed CalfSandra BirdsellAmazon

1996 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Englishman's BoyGuy VanderhaegheFrom the national bestselling author of The Last Crossing, a story thats “by turns a western, a critique of Hollywood, and a novel of ideas” (The New York Times Book Review). In 1920s Hollywood, elusive producer Damon Ira Chance is obsessed with making mo...Amazon1996 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAlias GraceMargaret AtwoodAmazonComing Down from WaAudrey ThomasAmazonLet Me Be the OneElisabeth HarvorAmazonTeaching Pigs to SingCordelia StrubeAmazonThe Green LibraryJanice Kulyk KeeferAmazon

1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Roaring GirlGreg Hollingshead“Writing doesn’t get much better,” The Edmonton Journal enthused when The Roaring Girl was first published in 1995. Readers and award committees agreed, bestowing Hollingshead with bestselling-author status and a Governor Generals Award for Fiction. These...Amazon1995 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistHighways and DancehallsDiana AtkinsonAmazonMister SandmanBarbara GowdyAmazonThe Age of LongingRichard B. WrightAmazonThe Jaguar TempleJulie KeithAmazon