The shortlisted nominees for the 2017 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 4, 2017,[1] and the winners were announced on November 1.[2]
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| Fiction |  Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night[2]
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| Non-fiction | Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State[2]
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| Poetry | Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood[2]
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| Drama | Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm[2]
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| Children's literature | Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves[2]
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| Children's illustration | David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone[2]
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| French to English translation | Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme)[2]
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| Fiction | Christian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige[3]
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| Non-fiction | Serge Bouchard, Les Yeux tristes de mon camion[3]
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| Poetry | Louise Dupré, La Main hantée[3]
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| Drama | Sébastien David, Dimanche napalm[3]
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| Children's literature | Véronique Drouin, L'importance de Mathilde Poisson[3]
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| Children's illustration | Jacques Goldstyn, Azadah[3]
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| English to French translation | Daniel Poliquin, Un barbare en Chine nouvelle (Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China)[3]
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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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