Fiction

• Michael Ondaatje
  Michael Ondaatje
  Philip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.-Life and work:...
  
  , Anil's Ghost
  Anil's Ghost
  Anil’s Ghost is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart.Anil’s Ghost follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in the United States on a scholarship, during which time she has become a forensic...
  
  
• Margaret Atwood
  Margaret Atwood
  Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
  
  , The Blind Assassin
  The Blind Assassin
  The Blind Assassin is an award-winning, bestselling novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. Set in Canada, it is narrated from the present day, referring back to events that span the twentieth century.The work was awarded the Man...
  
  
• Austin Clarke
  Austin Clarke
  Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St...
  
  , The Question
• David Adams Richards
  David Adams Richards
  David Adams Richards, CM, ONB is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, three credits shy of completing a B.A.. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and...
  
  , Mercy Among the Children
  Mercy Among the Children
  Mercy among the Children is a novel by David Adams Richards, published by Doubleday Canada in 2000. Sarah Slean championed the novel to compete in Canada Reads in 2009.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• Eden Robinson
  Eden Robinson
  Eden Victoria Lena Robinson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Born in Kitamaat, British Columbia, she is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations...
  
  , Monkey Beach

• Don McKay
  Don McKay
  Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...
  
  , Another Gravity
• George Bowering
  George Bowering
  George Harry Bowering, OC, OBC is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate....
  
  , His Life
• A.F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• John Pass
  John Pass
  John Pass is a Canadian poet. He has lived in Canada since 1953, and was educated at the University of British Columbia....
  
  , Water Stair
• Patricia Young
  Patricia Young
  Patricia Young is an Canadian poet, and short story writer.-Awards:* 1993 Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still* 2000 Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty.* 1990 Pat Lowther Award...
  
  , Ruin and Beauty

Drama

• Timothy Findley
  Timothy Findley
  Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC, O.Ont was a Canadian novelist and playwright. He was also informally known by the nickname Tiff or Tiffy, an acronym of his initials.-Biography:...
  
  , Elizabeth Rex
  Elizabeth Rex
  Elizabeth Rex is a play by Timothy Findley.The plot involves a meeting between Queen Elizabeth I and an actor from Shakespeare's troupe who specializes in playing women's parts...
  
  
• George Boyd, Consecrated Ground
• Linda Griffiths
  Linda Griffiths
  Linda Griffiths is a Canadian actor and playwright.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the National Theatre School for one year, and McGill University....
  
  , Alien Creature
• Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor
  Daniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
  
   and Daniel Brooks
  Daniel Brooks
  Daniel Brooks is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.A highly regarded theatre maker in Toronto's "alternative" theatre scene, Daniel Brooks has a reputation for creating and directing cutting edge productions which combine fiercely intellectual...
  
  , Monster
• Jason Sherman
  Jason Sherman
  Jason Sherman is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990...
  
  , It's All True

• Nega Mezlekia
  Nega Mezlekia
  Nega Mezlekia is an Ethiopian writer who writes in English. His first language is the Amharic language, but since the 1980s he has lived in Canada so speaks and writes in English....
  
  , Notes from the Hyena's Belly
• Robert Bringhurst
  Robert Bringhurst
  Robert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type...
  
  , A Story as Sharp as a Knife
• Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land
• A. B. McKillop
  A. B. McKillop
  A.B. McKillop is currently Chancellor's Professor and former Chair of the history department of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada....
  
  , The Spinster and the Prophet

Children's literature (text)

• Deborah Ellis
  Deborah Ellis
  Deborah Ellis is a Canadian author. Born in Cochrane, Ontario, she had to move several times in her childhood due to her parents' work. Ellis decided to start writing when she was 11-12 years old. When she grew up, her work and writing was mainly done by traveling and talking to others that have...
  
  , Looking for X
• Martha Brooks
  Martha Brooks
  Martha Brooks is an award-winning, Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002....
  
  , Being with Henry
• Sharon E. McKay, Charlie Wilcox
• Sheldon Oberman
  Sheldon Oberman
  Sheldon Oberman was an award-winning Canadian children's writer who lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.Born in Winnipeg, Oberman grew up in the city's North End. After graduating from St. Johns High School, he studied literature first at the University of Winnipeg and then at the Hebrew University in...
  
  , The Shaman's Nephew
• Duncan Thornton
  Duncan Thornton
  Duncan Thornton is a Canadian author, speaker, and futurist. He was born in God's Lake Narrows, Manitoba, where his father served as minister in the United Church of Canada. The family moved to Winnipeg a few years later. At the age of the 13 he dropped out of school, but 20 he enrolled as a...
  
  , Kalifax

• Marie-Louise Gay
  Marie-Louise Gay
  Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children’s author and illustrator.- Background :Born in Quebec City, as a child she lived in Montreal and Vancouver. Gay has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple...
  
  , Yuck, A Love Story
• Nelly and Ernst Hofer
  Ernst Hofer
  -Achievements:-References:* on JudoInside.com...
  
  , The Snow Queen
• Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah's Collections
• Regolo Ricci
  Regolo Ricci
  Regolo Ricci is a Canadian artist working mainly in oils and watercolors. He was born in Italy and came to Canada as a young child. He is best known for his work as a children's book illustrator, and he was nominated for the Governor General's Award for Children's Book Illustration in 2000. He...
  
  , The Market Wedding
• Cybèle Young, Pa's Harvest

French-to-English translation

• Robert Majzels
  Robert Majzels
  Robert Majzels is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.- Life :Majzels was born in Montreal. In 1986, he graduated with a Master's degree in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, where he would later teach creative writing for thirteen years. Between 2000 and...
  
  , Just Fine
• Sheila Fischman
  Sheila Fischman
  Sheila Leah Fischman, CM is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature....
  
  , Terra Firma
• Linda Gaboriau
  Linda Gaboriau
  Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....
  
  , Down Dangerous Passes Road
• Bobby Theodore, 15 Seconds

• Jean-Marc Dalpé
  Jean-Marc Dalpé
  Jean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....
  
  , Un vent se lève qui éparpille
• Christiane Duchesne, L'Homme des silences
• Roger Magini, Styx
• Pierre Samson, Il était une fois une ville
• Alison Lee Strayer, Jardin et prairie

Poetry

• Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien
• Martine Audet, Orbites
• Joël Des Rosiers, Vétiver
• Madeleine Gagnon, Rêve de pierre
• Claude Paré, Exécuté en chambre

• Wajdi Mouawad
  Wajdi Mouawad
  Wajdi Mouawad, OC is a Canadian writer, actor and director born in Lebanon in 1968. After living in France for a short time, he moved to Quebec in 1983.- Biography :He obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991....
  
  , Littoral
• Geneviève Billette, Crime contre l'humanité
• Serge Boucher, 24 Poses
• Jasmine Dubé, L'Arche de Noémie
• Lise Vaillancourt, Le petit dragon, et La balade de Fannie et Carcassonne

Non-fiction

• Gérard Bouchard
  Gérard Bouchard
  Gérard Bouchard is a historian, sociologist and writer from Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval in 1968 and later obtained his PhD degree in history from the University...
  
  , Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde
• Brian T. Fitch
  Brian T. Fitch
  Brian T. Fitch is a French-Canadian non-fiction author, He was nominated for a 2000 Governor General's Award for À l'ombre de la littérature and a 2004 Governor General's Award for Le langage de la pensée et l’écriture : Humboldt, Valéry, Beckett....
  
  , À l'ombre de la littérature
• Olga Hazan, Le mythe du progrès artistique
• Yves Lavertu, Jean-Charles Harvey
• Robert Major
  Robert Major
  Robert Benoit Major was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was an administrator by career.-Elected Office:He was elected at the Argenteuil riding in...
  
  , Convoyages

• Charlotte Gingras, Un été de Jade
• Guy Dessureault, L'homme au chat
• François Gravel, L'été de la moustache
• Gilles Tibo, La Planète du petit géant
• Hélène Vachon, Le délire de Somerset

Children's literature (illustration)

• Anne Villeneuve, L'Écharpe rouge
• Marie-Louise Gay
  Marie-Louise Gay
  Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children’s author and illustrator.- Background :Born in Quebec City, as a child she lived in Montreal and Vancouver. Gay has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple...
  
  , Sur mon île
• Pascale Constantin, Gloups!, Bébé-vampire
• Geneviève Côté, La grande aventure d'un petit mouton noir
• Gérard Dubois, Riquet à la Houppe

• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Un parfum de cèdre
• Jude Des Chênes, L'honneur du guerrier
• Dominique Issenhuth, Amants

External links

• The Canada Council: CUMULATIVE LIST OF FINALISTS FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS