The finalists for English Language Fiction are:
- Waiting for Joe by Sandra Birdsell,(Random House Canada)
- Room by Emma Donoghue (HarperCollins Canada)
- Motorcycles & Sweetgrass by Drew Hayden Taylor (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
- Cool Water by Dianne Warren (HarperCollins Canada)
- Annabel by Kathleen Winter (House of Anansi Press)
The finalists for English Language Nonfiction are:
- A History of Marriage by Elizabeth Abbott (Penguin)
- The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son by Ian Brown (Random House Canada)
- Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada by Allan Casey (Greystone Books, an imprint of D&M Publishers)
- Burmese Lessons: A Love Story by Karen Connelly (Random House Canada)
- Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 by John English (Alfred A. Knopf Canada)
The finalists for Children's Literature-Text are:
- Me, Myself and Ike by K.L. Denman (Orca Book Publishers)
- Tyranny by Lesley Fairfield (Tundra Books)
- Free as a Bird by Gina McMurchy-Barber (Dundurn Press)
- Fishtailing by Wendy Phillips (Coteau Books)
- Scars by Cheryl Rainfield (WestSide Books; distributed by Chapters / Indigo)
The finalists in the Children's Literature-Illustration category are:
- Kristi Bridgeman for Uirapurú: Based on a Brazilian Legend, text by P. K. Page (Oolichan Books)
- Julie Flett for Owls See Clearly at Night: a Michif alphabet / Lii Yiiboo Nayaapiwak lii Swer: l’alfabet di Michif, text by Julie Flett (Simply Read Books)
- Matt James for I Know Here, text by Laurel Croza (Groundwood Books)
- Jon Klassen for Cat’s Night Out, text by Caroline Stutson (Simon & Schuster / A Paula Wiseman Book)
- Renata Liwska for The Quiet Book, text by Deborah Underwood(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; distributed by Thomas Allen & Son)
For the full list of finalists, check out the Canada Council for the Arts website.
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