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]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Joel Thomas Hynes, We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night[2]	Michael Kaan, The Water Beetles Alison MacLeod, All the Beloved Ghosts Jocelyn Parr, Uncertain Weights and Measures Kathleen Winter, Lost in September
Non-fiction	Graeme Wood, The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State[2]	Sharon Butala, Where I Live Now: A Journey through Love and Loss to Healing and Hope Sarah de Leeuw, Where It Hurts Elaine Dewar, The Handover: How Bigwigs and Bureaucrats Transferred Canada's Best Publisher and the Best Part of our Literary Heritage to a Foreign Multinational Carol Off, All We Leave Behind: A Reporter's Journey into the Lives of Others
Poetry	Richard Harrison, On Not Losing My Father's Ashes in the Flood[2]	Lorna Crozier, What the Soul Doesn't Want Nora Gould, Selah Benjamin Hertwig, Slow War Julia McCarthy, All the Names Between
Drama	Hiro Kanagawa, Indian Arm[2]	Robert Chafe, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams Anna Chatterton, Within the Glass Michael Healey, 1979 Kate Hennig, The Virgin Trial
Children's literature	Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves[2]	Alison Hughes, Hit the Ground Running Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky Allan Stratton, The Way Back Home Danielle Younge-Ullman, Everything Beautiful Is Not Ruined
Children's illustration	David Robertson and Julie Flett, When We Were Alone[2]	Marie-Louise Gay, Short Stories for Little Monsters Paul Harbridge and Matt James, When the Moon Comes Joanne Schwartz and Sydney Smith, Town Is By the Sea Jan Thornhill, The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
French to English translation	Oana Avasilichioaei, Readopolis (Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme)[2]	Katia Grubisic, Brothers (David Clerson, Frères) Howard Scott, Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries (Gérard Bouchard, Raison et déraison du mythe) Pablo Strauss, The Longest Year (Daniel Grenier, L'année la plus longue) W. Donald Wilson, In Search of New Babylon (Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon)

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Christian Guay-Poliquin, Le Poids de la neige[3]	Virginie Blanchette-Doucet, 117 Nord Mylène Bouchard, L'Imparfaite Amitié Michael Delisle, Le Palais de la fatigue Stéphane Larue, Le Plongeur
Non-fiction	Serge Bouchard, Les Yeux tristes de mon camion[3]	Benoît Côté, Propositions de clarté Daniel Grenier, La solitude de l'écrivain de fond Nicolas Lévesque, Je sais trop bien ne pas exister Ouanessa Younsi, Soigner, aimer
Poetry	Louise Dupré, La Main hantée[3]	Jean-Marc Desgent, Strange Fruits Annie Lafleur, Bec-de-lièvre Judy Quinn, Pas de tombeau pour les lieux Serge Patrice Thibodeau, L'Isle Haute en marge de Grand-Pré
Drama	Sébastien David, Dimanche napalm[3]	Nathalie Boisvert, Antigone au printemps Emma Haché, Exercice de l'oubli Suzanne Lebeau, Trois petites sœurs Kevin McCoy, Norge
Children's literature	Véronique Drouin, L'importance de Mathilde Poisson[3]	Annie Bacon, Chroniques post-apocalyptiques d'une enfant sage Jocelyn Boisvert, Les Moustiques Roxane Desjardins, Moi qui marche à tâtons dans ma jeunesse noire K. Lambert, L'élixir du baron Von Rezine
Children's illustration	Jacques Goldstyn, Azadah[3]	Pascal Blanchet, En voiture! L'Amérique en chemin de fer Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault, Louis parmi les spectres Christiane Duchesne and Marion Arbona, Fred Petitchatminou Renée Robitaille and Slavka Kolesar, La légende de Carcajou
English to French translation	Daniel Poliquin, Un barbare en Chine nouvelle (Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China)[3]	Carole Noël and Marianne Noël-Allen, Le Sans-papiers (Lawrence Hill, The Illegal) Paule Noyart, La disparition d'Heinrich Schlögel (Martha Baillie, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel) Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Premières lueurs : mon combat contre le trouble de stress post-traumatique (Roméo Dallaire, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD) Sophie Voillot, Le sous-majordome (Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor)

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