The shortlisted nominees for the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2016,[1] and the winners were announced on October 25.[2]
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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| Non-fiction | Bill Waiser, A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905
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| Poetry | Steven Heighton, The Waking Comes Late
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| Drama | Colleen Murphy, Pig Girl
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| Children's literature | Martine Leavitt, Calvin
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| Children's illustration | Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka, Tokyo Digs a Garden
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| French to English translation | Lazer Lederhendler, The Party Wall (Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen)
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| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Dominique Fortier, Au péril de la mer
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| Non-fiction | Roland Viau, Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone
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| Poetry | Normand de Bellefeuille, Le poème est une maison de bord de mer
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| Drama | Wajdi Mouawad, Inflammation du verbe vivre
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| Children's literature | François Gilbert, Hare Krishna
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| Children's illustration | Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé, Grand-père et la lune
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| English to French translation | Catherine Ego, La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone (James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains)
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Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit
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| English-language awards |
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| Awards by year |
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