Governor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction — Complete Winners List

16 years of winners · Canada Council for the Arts · Since 1936 · ← Back to award page

Year	Title	Author	Publisher
2025	Small Ceremonies	—	—
2024	Empty Spaces	Jordan Abel	McClelland & Stewart
2023	Chrysalis	Anuja Varghese	House of Anansi Press
2022	Pure Colour	Sheila Heti	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
2021	Tainna: The Unseen Ones	Norma Dunning	Douglas & McIntyre
2020	Five Little Indians	Michelle Good	HarperCollins Canada
2019	Five Wives	Joan Thomas	McClelland & Stewart
2018	The Red Word	Sarah Henstra	Grove Atlantic
2017	We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night	Joel Thomas Hynes	HarperCollins
2016	Do Not Say We Have Nothing	Madeleine Thien	HarperCollins Canada
2015	Daddy Lenin and Other Stories	Guy Vanderhaeghe	McClelland & Stewart
2014	The Back of the Turtle	Thomas King	HarperCollins Canada
2013	The Luminaries	Eleanor Catton	Little, Brown and Company
2012	The Purchase	Linda Spalding	McClelland & Stewart
2011	The Sisters Brothers	Patrick deWitt	Ecco Press
2010	Cool Water	Dianne Warren	HarperCollins Canada