The shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 2,[1] and the winners were announced on November 13.[2] Each winner will be awarded $25,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts.[1]
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Eleanor Catton, The Luminaries
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| Non-fiction | Sandra Djwa, A Journey with No Maps: A Life of P. K. Page
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| Poetry | Katherena Vermette, North End Love Songs
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| Drama | Nicolas Billon, Fault Lines: Three Plays
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| Children's literature | Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
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| Children's illustration | Matt James, Northwest Passage
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| French to English translation | Donald Winkler, The Major Verbs (Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs)
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| Fiction | Stéphanie Pelletier, Quand les guêpes se taisent
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| Non-fiction | Yvon Rivard, Aimer, enseigner
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| Poetry | René Lapierre, Pour les désespérés seulement
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| Drama | Fanny Britt, Bienveillance
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| Children's literature | Geneviève Mativat, À l'ombre de la grande maison
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| Children's illustration | Isabelle Arsenault, Jane, le renard et moi
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| English to French translation | Sophie Voillot, L'enfant du jeudi (Alison Pick, Far to Go)
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Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit
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| Awards by year |
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