2024 Governor General Literary Award winning books.

The Canada Council for the Arts has announced the 14 winners of the 2024 Governor General’s Literary Awards.

Winning writers, illustrators, and translators receive $25,000, while publishers receive $3,000 to promote the winning titles. Finalists, who were announced last month, each receive $1,000.

The English-language winners are:

Fiction

• Empty Spaces by Jordan Abel (McClelland & Stewart/Penguin Random House Canada)

Poetry

• Scientific Marvel by Chimwemwe Undi (House of Anansi Press)

Drama

• There Is Violence and There Is Righteous Violence and There Is Death, or the Born-Again Crow by Caleigh Crow (Playwrights Canada Press)

Nonfiction

• Wînipêk: Visions of Canada from an Indigenous Centre by Niigaan Sinclair (McClelland & Stewart/PRHC)

Young People’s Literature – Text

• Crash Landing by Li Charmaine Anne (Annick Press)

Young People’s Literature – Illustrated Books

• Skating Wild on an Inland Sea by Jean E. Pendziwol and Todd Stewart, ill. (Groundwood Books)

Translation (from French to English)

• 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

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

Finalists and winners were selected by category-specific peer assessment committees. Committees considered 1,529 nominated books this year. Eligible books were those published August 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024.