2017 Governor General's Literary Awards: Finalists announced

Today, the Canada Council for the Arts announced the finalists for the Governor General's Literary Awards.

The seven categories of books, both in French and English, for which awards are given are:

• Fiction
• Non-Fiction
• Poetry
• Young People's Literature (Text)
• Young People's Literature (Illustration)
• Drama
• Translation

Congratulations to the finalists 

for the literary awards of English or French language 

works for young people.

English-language: Young People's Literature (Text)

Everything Beautiful is Not Ruined
Written by Danielle Younge-Ullman
Razorbill

Reviewed here

Hit the Ground Running
Written by Alison Hughes
Orca Book Publishers

The Marrow Thieves
Written by Cherie Dimaline
Dancing Cat Books

The Way Back Home
Written by Allan Stratton
Scholastic Canada

Those Who Run in the Sky
Written by Aviaq Johnston
Inhabit Media

English-language:  Young People's Literature (Illustration)

Short Stories for Little Monsters
Written and illustrated by Marie-Louise Gay
Groundwood Books

Reviewed here

The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
Written and illustrated by Jan Thornhill
Groundwood Books

Reviewed here

Town is By the Sea
Written by Joanne Schwartz
Illustrated by Sydney Smith
Groundwood Books

Reviewed here

When the Moon Comes
Written by Paul Harbridge
Illustrated by Matt James
Tundra Books

When We Were Alone
Written by David A. Robertson
Illustrated by Julie Flett
High Water Press

French-language: Young People's Literature (Text)

Chroniques post-apocalyptique d'une enfant sage
par Annie Bacon
Bayard Canada

L'elixir du baron Von Rezine
par K. Lambert
Éditions Pierre Tisseyre

Les moustiques
par Jocelyn Boisvert
Soulières éditeur

L'importance de Matilde Poisson
par Véronique Drouin
Bayard Canada

Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire
par Roxanne Desjardins
Les Herbes rouges

French-language: Young People's Literature (Illustration)

Azadah
par Jacques Goldstyn
Les Éditions de la Pastèque

En voiture! L'Amérique en chemin de fer
par Pascal Blanchet
Les Éditions de la Pastèque

Fred Petitchatminou

par Christiane Duchesne 

Illustré de Marion Arbona

Les Éditions de la Bagnole

La légende de Carcajou

par Renée Robitaille 

Illustré de  Slavka Kolesar

Planète rebelle

Louis parmi les spectres

par Fanny Britt 

Illustré de Isabelle Arsenault

Les Éditions de la Pastèque

Winning titles will be announced 

on November 1, 2017

and 

presented on a later date at Rideau Hall.