ShelfEvidentGovernor General's Literary Award for English-Language Fiction — Complete Winners List
88 years of winners · Canada Council for the Arts · Since 1936 · ← Back to award page
| 2025 | — | — | |
| 2024 | Jordan Abel | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 2023 | Anuja Varghese | House of Anansi Press | |
| 2022 | Sheila Heti | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | |
| 2021 | Norma Dunning | Douglas & McIntyre | |
| 2020 | Michelle Good | HarperCollins Canada | |
| 2019 | Joan Thomas | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 2018 | Sarah Henstra | Grove Atlantic | |
| 2017 | Joel Thomas Hynes | HarperCollins | |
| 2016 | Madeleine Thien | HarperCollins Canada | |
| 2015 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 2014 | Thomas King | HarperCollins Canada | |
| 2013 | Eleanor Catton | Little, Brown and Company | |
| 2012 | Linda Spalding | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 2011 | Patrick deWitt | Ecco Press | |
| 2010 | Dianne Warren | HarperCollins Canada | |
| 2009 | Kate Pullinger | — | |
| 2008 | Nino Ricci | — | |
| 2007 | Michael Ondaatje | McClelland & Stewart | |
| 2006 | Peter Behrens | — | |
| 2005 | David Gilmour | — | |
| 2004 | Miriam Toews | — | |
| 2003 | Douglas Glover | — | |
| 2002 | Gloria Sawai | — | |
| 2001 | Richard B. Wright | — | |
| 2000 | Michael Ondaatje | — | |
| 1999 | Matt Cohen | — | |
| 1998 | Diane Schoemperlen | — | |
| 1997 | Jane Urquhart | — | |
| 1996 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | — | |
| 1995 | Greg Hollingshead | — | |
| 1994 | Rudy Wiebe | — | |
| 1993 | Carol Shields | — | |
| 1992 | Michael Ondaatje | — | |
| 1991 | Rohinton Mistry | — | |
| 1990 | Nino Ricci | — | |
| 1989 | Paul Quarrington | — | |
| 1988 | David Adams Richards | — | |
| 1987 | M. T. Kelly | — | |
| 1986 | Alice Munro | — | |
| 1985 | Margaret Atwood | — | |
| 1984 | Josef Skvorecky | — | |
| 1983 | Leon Rooke | — | |
| 1982 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | — | |
| 1981 | Mavis Gallant | — | |
| 1980 | George Bowering | — | |
| 1979 | Jack Hodgins | — | |
| 1978 | Alice Munro | — | |
| 1977 | Timothy Findley | — | |
| 1976 | Marian Engel | — | |
| 1975 | Brian Moore | — | |
| 1974 | Margaret Laurence | — | |
| 1973 | Rudy Wiebe | — | |
| 1972 | Robertson Davies | — | |
| 1971 | Mordecai Richler | — | |
| 1970 | Dave Godfrey | — | |
| 1969 | Robert Kroetsch | — | |
| 1968 | Alice Munro | — | |
| 1966 | Margaret Laurence | — | |
| 1964 | Douglas LePan | — | |
| 1963 | Hugh Garner | — | |
| 1962 | Kildare Dobbs | — | |
| 1961 | Malcolm Lowry | — | |
| 1960 | Brian Moore | — | |
| 1959 | Hugh MacLennan | — | |
| 1958 | Colin McDougall | — | |
| 1957 | Gabrielle Roy | — | |
| 1956 | Adele Wiseman | — | |
| 1955 | Lionel Shapiro | — | |
| 1954 | Igor Gouzenko | — | |
| 1953 | David Walker | — | |
| 1952 | David Walker | — | |
| 1951 | Morley Callaghan | — | |
| 1950 | Germaine Guèvremont | — | |
| 1949 | Philip Child | — | |
| 1948 | Hugh MacLennan | — | |
| 1947 | Gabrielle Roy | — | |
| 1946 | Winifred Bambrick | — | |
| 1945 | Hugh MacLennan | — | |
| 1944 | Gwethalyn Graham | — | |
| 1943 | Thomas H. Raddall | — | |
| 1942 | G. Herbert Sallans | — | |
| 1941 | Alan Sullivan | — | |
| 1940 | Ringuet | — | |
| 1939 | Franklin D. McDowell | — | |
| 1938 | Gwethalyn Graham | — | |
| 1937 | Laura G. Salverson | — | |
| 1936 | Bertram Brooker | — |
