Governor General’s Literary Awards

The Governor General's Literary Awards (GGs) are given annually to the best English-language and the best French-language book in each of the seven categories of Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature (text), Children's Literature (illustration) and Translation (from French to English and English to French).

The Canada Council for the arts funds, administers and promotes the GGs. The value of each award is $25,000 and each winner will also receive a specially-bound copy of the winning book. The publisher of each winning book will receive $3,000 to support promotional activities. Non-winning finalists will each receive $1,000 in recognition of their selection as finalists, bringing the total value of the Awards close to $450,000.

Committees of “peers” (writers, critics, and/or independent book professionals) review all eligible titles in each of the seven categories according to literary and artistic merit.

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