The winners of the 80th Governor General's Literary Awards were announced October 25. Each winner was selected by a committee of peers and awarded a $25,000 prize.

The English-language winners of this year's awards are:

Fiction: Do Not Say We Have Nothing, Madeleine Thien
Poetry: The Waking Comes Late, Steven Heighton
Drama: Pig Girl, Colleen Murphy
Nonfiction: A World We Have Lost: Saskatchewan Before 1905, Bill Waiser
Young People's Literature - Text: Calvin, Martine Leavitt
Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books: Tokyo Digs a Garden, Jon-Erik Lappano and Kellen Hatanaka
Translation: The Party Wall, translated by Lazer Lederhendler, written by Catherine Leroux

The French-language winners of this year's awards are:

Fiction: Au péril de la mer, Dominique Fortier
Poetry: Le poème est une maison de bord de mer, Normand de Bellefeuille
Drama: Inflammation du verbe vivre, Wajdi Mouawad
Nonfiction: Amerindia : essais d'ethnohistoire autochtone, Roland Viau
Young People's Literature - Text: Hare Krishna, François Gilbert
Young People's Literature - Illustrated Books: Grand-père et la Lune, Stéphanie Lapointe and Rogé
Translation: La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone, translated by Catherine Ego, written by James Daschuk

The awards will be presented by Gov. Gen. David Johnston at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Nov. 30.

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Governor General's Literary Awards Winners Announced