The Canada Council for the Arts has named 70 finalists for the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards.

Each finalist receives $1,000, with the winners in each of the 14 categories to receive $25,000. Publishers of the winning books will each receive $3,000 to promote the book.

The winners will be announced on Nov. 13. Eligible books were published between August 1, 2023, and July 31, 2024.

The English-language finalists are:

Fiction

• Code Noir by Canisia Lubrin (Knopf Canada/Penguin Random House Canada)
• Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• The Memoirs of Miss Chief Eagle Testickle: Vol. 1: A True and Exact Accounting of the History of Turtle Island by Kent Monkman and Gisèle Gordon (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)
• Her Body Among Animals by Paola Ferrante (Book*hug Press)
• Naniki by Oonya Kempadoo (Rare Machines/Dundurn Press)

Poetry

• The Work by Bren Simmers (Gaspereau Press)
• Precedented Parroting by Barbara Tran (Palimpsest Press)
• The All + Flesh by Brandi Bird (House of Anansi Press)
• Sonnets from a Cell by Bradley Peters (Brick Books)
• Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi (House of Anansi Press)

Drama

• I Forgive You by Scott Jones and Robert Chafe (Playwrights Canada Press)
• New by Pamela Mala Sinha (Playwrights Canada Press)
• The Green Line by Makram Ayache (Playwrights Canada Press)
• Shorelines by Mishka Lavigne (Playwrights Canada Press)
• There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow by Caleigh Crow (Playwrights Canada Press)

Nonfiction

• Crooked Teeth: A Queer Syrian Refugee Memoir by Danny Ramadan (Viking Canada/PRHC)
• Becoming a Matriarch by Helen Knott (Knopf Canada/PRHC)
• The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Petra Molnar (The New Press)
• The Age of Insecurity: Coming Together as Things Fall Apart by Astra Taylor (House of Anansi Press)
• Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)

Young People’s Literature – Text

• Song of Freedom, Song of Dreams by Shari Green (Andrews McMeel Publishing)
• A Crane Among Wolves by June Hur (Feiwel and Friends/MacMillan Publishers)
• Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline (Feiwel and Friends/MacMillan Publishers)
• Crash Landing by Li Charmaine Anne (Annick Press)
• Mortified by Kristy Jackson (HarperCollins)

Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books

• I’m Afraid, Said the Leaf by Danielle Daniel and Matt James, ill. (Tundra Books/PRHC)
• The Gulf by Adam de Souza (Tundra Books/PRHC)
• Do You Remember? by Sydney Smith (Groundwood Books)
• Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, ill. (Groundwood Books)
• One Giant Leap by Thao Lam (Owlkids Books)

Translation (from French to English)

• So Long Sad Love translated by Aleshia Jensen (Drawn and Quarterly)
  A translation of Adieu triste amour by Mirion Malle
• The Hollow Beast translated by Lazer Lederhendler (Biblioasis)
  A translation of La bête creuse by Christophe Bernard
• Sadie X translated by Aimee Wall (Book*hug Press)
  A translation of Sadie X by Clara Dupuis-Morency
• Morel translated by Melissa Bull (Baraka Books)
  A translation of Morel by Maxime Raymond Bock
• Nights Too Short to Dance translated by Katia Grubisic (Second Story Press)
  A translation of Un cœur habité de mille voix by Marie-Claire Blais

Finalists in the French-language categories are listed on ggbooks.ca.