Governor General's Literary Awards Short List 2016

Short listed for Poetry

Poetry:

•    Regeneration Machine by Joe Denham

•    The Waking Comes Late by Steven Heighton

•    Throaty Wipes by Susan Holbrook

•    Prairie Harbour by Garry Thomas Morse

•    Marry & Burn by Rachel Rose

The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynn-Jones. GG short list for Young People's Literature (test)

Young people's literature (text):

•    The Unquiet by Mikaela Everett

•    A Thousand Nights by E.K. Johnston

•    Once in a Town Called Moth by Trilby Kent

•    Calvin by Martine Leavitt

•    The Emperor of Any Place by Tim Wynne-Jones

Toyko Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano short listed for Young People's Literature, Illustration.

Young people's literature (illustration):

•    The White Cat and the Monk by Jo Ellen Bogart, illustrated by Sydney Smith

•    A Hungry Lion, or A Dwindling Assortment of Animals by Lucy Ruth Cummins

•    Tokyo Digs a Garden by Jon-Erik Lappano, illustrated by Kellen Hatanaka

•    The Branch by Mireille Messier, illustrated by Pierre Pratt

•    Ooko by Esmé Shapiro

Drama:

•    Kill Me Now by Brad Fraser

•    Pig Girl by Colleen Murphy

•    A Man A Fish by Donna-Michelle St. Bernard

•    Concord Floral by Jordan Tannahill

•    Refuge by Mary Vingoe

Brad Fraser author of Kill Me Now, short listed for GG drama

Translation (French to English):

•    The Party Wall translated by Lazer Lederhendler, written by Catherine Leroux

•    Guano translated by Rhonda Mullins, written by Louis Carmai
•    The Goddess of Fireflies translated by Neil Smith, written by Geneviève Pettersen

The Goddess of Fireflies by Genevieve Pettersen translated by Neil Smith. GG short list for Translation from French to English