The shortlisted nominees for the 2023 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 25, 2023,[1] and the winners were announced on November 8.[2]
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| Fiction |  Anuja Varghese, Chrysalis
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| Non-fiction | Kyo Maclear, Unearthing
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| Poetry | Hannah Green, Xanax Cowboy
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| Drama | Cliff Cardinal, As You Like It, A Radical Retelling
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| Children's literature | Sarah Everett, The Probability of Everything
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| Children's illustration | Jack Wong, When You Can Swim
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| French to English translation | Peter McCambridge, Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution (Éric Dupont, La Logeuse)
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| Fiction | Marie Hélène Poitras, Galumpf
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| Non-fiction | Philippe Bernier Arcand, Faux rebelles : Les dérives du politiquement incorrect
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| Poetry | Rita Mestokosho, Atikᵁ utei. Le cœur du caribou
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| Drama | Mathieu Gosselin, Gros gars
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| Children's literature | Lou Beauchesne, Linoubliable
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| Children's illustration | Samuel Larochelle and Ève Patenaude, Le plus petit sauveur du monde
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| English to French translation | Catherine Ego, Dans lʼombre du soleil: Réflexions sur la race et les récits (Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling)
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Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit
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| English-language awards |
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| French-language awards |
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| Awards by year |
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