Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
Year Author Title
2010 Kim Thúy Ru
2010 Marie-Claire Blais Mai au bal des prédateurs
2010 Martine Desjardins Maleficium
2010 Agnès Gruda Onze petites trahisons
2010 Dany Laferrière Lénigme du retour
2011 Perrine Leblanc Lhomme blanc
2011 Alain Beaulieu Le postier Passila
2011 Jean-Simon Desrochers Les sabliers de solitude
2011 Tassia Trifiatis Mère-grand
2011 Mélanie Vincelette Polynie
2012 France Daigle Pour sûr
2012 Ryad Assani-Razaki La main d'Iman
2012 Charles Bolduc Les truites à mains nues
2012 Catherine Mavrikakis Les derniers jours de Smokey Nelson
2012 Audrée Wilhelmy Oss
2013 Stéphanie Pelletier Quand les guêpes se taisent
2013 Sergio Kokis Culs-de-sac
2013 Roger Magini Ilitch , mort ou vif
2013 Marc Séguin Hollywood
2013 Gérald Tougas Le deuxième train de la nuit
Winners and nominees -- 2010s
The Governor General's Award for French-language fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a fiction book written in French. It is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. The Governor General's Awards program is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The program was created and inaugurated in 1937, for 1936 publications in two categories, conventionally called the 1936 awards. French-language works were first recognized by the 1959 Governor General's Awards. Prior to 1959, the Canada Council did not present any awards for French-language literature, although four works originally published in French - Ringuet's Thirty Acres, Germaine Guèvremont's The Outlander, and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute and Street of Riches - won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction when a follow-up English translation was published. The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Since then, the advance shortlist has numbered three to six; from 2002, always five.