This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for English-to-French translation awarded by the Governor-General of Canada.

Winners and nominees

1980s

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| align="center" rowspan="4" | 1987

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Ivan Steenhout, Christiane Teasdale

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| '

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Heather Robertson, Willie: A Romance

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| align="center" | Jean-Pierre Fournier

| align="center" | Jacob Deux-Deux et le dinosaure

| align="center" | Mordecai Richler, Jacob Two-Two and the Dinosaur

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| align="center" | Ivan Steenhout

| align="center" | La couleur du sang

| align="center" | Brian Moore, The Colour of Blood

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| align="center" | Claudine Vivier

| align="center" | La Dialectique de la reproduction

| align="center" | Mary O'Brien, The Politics of Reproduction

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| align="center" rowspan="4"| 1988

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Didier Holtzwarth

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| '

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Robert Bothwell, Nucleus: A History of Atomic Energy of Canada Limited

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| align="center" | Gérard Boulad

| align="center" | Profession: Religieuse

| align="center" | Marta Danylewycz, Taking the Veil

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| align="center" | Jean Lévesque, Michèle Venet

| align="center" | Le Rêve d'une génération

| align="center" | Merrily Weisbord, The Strangest Dream: Canadian Communists, the Spy Trials and the Cold War

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| align="center" | Michel Saint-Germain

| align="center" | Flagrant Délice

| align="center" | James Burke, Arnold Manweiler, If It Weren't for Sex, I'd Have to Get a Job

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| align="center" rowspan="3"| 1989

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Jean Antonin Billard

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| '

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Dorothy Livesay, The Phases of Love

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| align="center" | Ronald Guévremont

| align="center" | Comme un vent chaud de Chine

| align="center" | Kent Stetson, Warm Wind in China

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| align="center" | Christine Klein-Lataud

| align="center" | Un Oiseau dans la maison

| align="center" | Margaret Laurence, A Bird in the House

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1990s

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| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Sophie Voillot

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| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Alison Pick, Far to Go

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| align="center" | Rachel Martinez

| align="center" | Les maux d'Ambroise Bukowski

| align="center" | Susin Nielsen, Word Nerd

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| align="center" | Daniel Poliquin

| align="center" | Du village à la ville: comment les migrants changent le monde

| align="center" | Doug Saunders, Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World

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| align="center" | Hélène Rioux

| align="center" | Le cousin

| align="center" | John Calabro, The Cousin

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| align="center" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" | Jamais je ne t'oublierai

| align="center" | Miriam Toews, Swing Low: A Life

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2014

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Daniel Poliquin

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| '

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America

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| align="center" | Éric Fontaine

| align="center" | Les Blondes

| align="center" | Emily Schultz, The Blondes

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| align="center" | Hervé Juste

| align="center" | Poisson d’avril

| align="center" | Josip Novakovich, April Fool's Day

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| align="center" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" | La femme Hokusai

| align="center" | Katherine Govier, The Ghost Brush

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| align="center" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" | Une brève histoire des Indiens au Canada

| align="center" | Thomas King, A Short History of Indians in Canada

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2015

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Solomon Gursky

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Mordecai Richler, Solomon Gursky Was Here

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| align="center" | Christiane Duchesne

| align="center" | Élisabeth dans le pétrin

| align="center" | Susan Glickman, Bernadette in the Doghouse

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| align="center" | Catherine Ego

| align="center" | Voisins et ennemis. La Guerre de sécession et l'invention du Canada

| align="center" | John Boyko, Blood and Daring : How Canada Fought the American Civil War and Forged a Nation

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| align="center" | Marie Frankland

| align="center" | MxT

| align="center" | Sina Queyras, MxT

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| align="center" | Rachel Martinez

| align="center" | Ma vie (racontée malgré moi) par Henry K. Larsen

| align="center" | Susin Nielsen, The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2016

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Catherine Ego

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | La destruction des Indiens des Plaines : maladies, famines organisées, disparition du mode de vie autochtone

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | James Daschuk, Clearing the Plains

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| align="center" | Christophe Bernard

| align="center" | Les hautes montagnes du Portugal

| align="center" | Yann Martel, The High Mountains of Portugal

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| align="center" | Daniel Poliquin

| align="center" | Le grand retour : le réveil autochtone

| align="center" | John Ralston Saul, The Comeback

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| align="center" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" | Joshua

| align="center" | Mordecai Richler, Joshua Then and Now

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| align="center" | Madeleine Stratford

| align="center" | Elle nage

| align="center" | Marianne Apostolides, Swim

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2017

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Daniel Poliquin

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Un barbare en Chine nouvelle

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Alexandre Trudeau, Barbarian Lost: Travels in the New China

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| align="center" | Carole Noël, Marianne Noël-Allen

| align="center" | Le Sans-papiers

| align="center" | Lawrence Hill, The Illegal

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| align="center" | Paule Noyart

| align="center" | La disparition d'Heinrich Schlögel

| align="center" | Martha Baillie, The Search for Heinrich Schlögel

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| align="center" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" | Premières lueurs : mon combat contre le trouble de stress post-traumatique

| align="center" | Roméo Dallaire, Waiting for First Light: My Ongoing Battle with PTSD

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| align="center" | Sophie Voillot

| align="center" | Le sous-majordome

| align="center" | Patrick deWitt, Undermajordomo Minor

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2018

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Le monde selon Barney

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version

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| align="center" | Éric Fontaine

| align="center" | Sweetland

| align="center" | Michael Crummey, Sweetland

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| align="center" | Daniel Grenier, William S. Messier

| align="center" | De l’utilité de l’ennui : textes de balle

| align="center" | Andrew Forbes, The Utility of Boredom: Baseball Essays

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| align="center" | Laurence Gough

| align="center" | Naissances

| align="center" | Kate Cayley, How You Were Born

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| align="center" | Catherine Leroux

| align="center" | Le saint patron des merveilles

| align="center" | Mark Frutkin, Fabrizio's Return

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2019

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Catherine Leroux

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Nous qui n'étions rien

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing

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| align="center" | Nicolas Calvé

| align="center" | L'animal langage : la compétence linguistique humaine

| align="center" | Charles Taylor, The Language Animal

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| align="center" | Lori Saint-Martin, Paul Gagné

| align="center" | Le Yiddish à l'usage des pirates

| align="center" | Gary Barwin, Yiddish for Pirates

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| align="center" | Madeleine Stratford

| align="center" | Pilleurs de rêves

| align="center" | Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves

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| align="center" | Sophie Voillot

| align="center" | Onze jours en septembre

| align="center" | Kathleen Winter, Lost in September

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2020s

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2020

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Georgette LeBlanc

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Océan

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Susan Goyette, Ocean

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| align="center" | Arianne Des Rochers

| align="center" | Jonny Appleseed

| align="center" | Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed

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| align="center" | Daniel Grenier

| align="center" | On pleure pas au bingo

| align="center" | Dawn Dumont, Nobody Cries at Bingo

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| align="center" | Sonya Malaborza

| align="center" | L'Accoucheuse de Scots Bay

| align="center" | Ami McKay, The Birth House

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| align="center" | Sophie Voillot

| align="center" | La Société du feu de l’enfer

| align="center" | Rawi Hage, Beirut Hellfire Society

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| rowspan="5" align="center" | 2021

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Marie Frankland

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Poèmes 1938-1984

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Elizabeth Smart, The Collected Poems

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| align="center" | Dominique Fortier

| align="center" | La ballade de Baby suivi de Sagesse de l'absurde

| align="center" | Heather O'Neill, Lullabies for Little Criminals and Wisdom in Nonsense

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| align="center" | Daniel Grenier

| align="center" | La Course de Rose

| align="center" | Dawn Dumont, Rose's Run

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| align="center" | Colette St-Hilaire

| align="center" | Toots fait la Shiva, avenue Minto

| align="center" | Erín Moure, Sitting Shiva on Minto Avenue, by Toots

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| align="center" | Madeleine Stratford

| align="center" | Petits marronnages

| align="center" | Kaie Kellough, Dominoes at the Crossroads

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| align="center" rowspan="5" |2022

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Mélissa Verreault

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Partie de chasse au petit gibier entre lâches au club de tir du coin

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Megan Gail Coles, Small Game Hunting at the Local Coward Gun Club

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| align="center" | Sylvie Bérard, Suzanne Grenier

| align="center" | Le fruit de la puanteur

| align="center" | Larissa Lai, Salt Fish Girl

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| align="center" | Éric Fontaine

| align="center" | Le malenchantement de sainte Lucy

| align="center" | Zsuzsi Gartner, The Beguiling

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| align="center" | Benoit Laflamme

| align="center" | Dans la lugubre forêt nos corps seront suspendus

| align="center" | Ava Farmehri, Through the Sad Wood Our Corpses Will Hang

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| align="center" | Catherine Leroux

| align="center" | Les coups de dés

| align="center" | Sean Michaels, The Wagers

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| align="center" rowspan="5" |2023

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Catherine Ego

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Dans lʼombre du soleil: Réflexions sur la race et les récits

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Esi Edugyan, Out of the Sun: On Race and Storytelling

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| align="center" | Dominique Fortier

| align="center" | Nʼayons pas peur du ciel

| align="center" | Emma Hooper, We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky

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| align="center" | Marie Frankland

| align="center" | Tout est bien

| align="center" | Mona Awad, All's Well

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| align="center" | Luba Markovskaia

| align="center" | Père fictif

| align="center" | Joe Ollmann, Fictional Father

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| align="center" | Madeleine Stratford

| align="center" | soufrelangue

| align="center" | Rebecca Salazar, sulphurtongue

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| rowspan="5"| 2024

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Éric Fontaine

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Ristigouche : Le long cours de la rivière sauvage

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Philip Lee, Restigouche: The Long Run of the Wild River

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| align="center" | Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau

| align="center" | Mourir pour la cause : Révolution dans le Québec des années 1960

| align="center" | Chris Oliveros, Are You Willing to Die for the Cause? Revolution in 1960s Quebec

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| align="center" | Daniel Grenier

| align="center" | Charlie Muskrat

| align="center" | Harold R. Johnson, Charlie Muskrat

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| align="center" | Madeleine Stratford

| align="center" | Cours vers le danger

| align="center" | Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

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| align="center" | Sophie Voillot

| align="center" | La messagère

| align="center" | Thomas Wharton, The Book of Rain

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| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2025

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Sylvie Bérard, Suzanne Grenier

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Les soeurs de la Muée

| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Larissa Lai, The Tiger Flu

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| align="center" | Marie Frankland

| align="center" | Rouge

| align="center" | Mona Awad, Rouge

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| align="center" | Annie Goulet

| align="center" | Créatures obscures du 21e siècle

| align="center" | Kim Fu, Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century

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| align="center" | Catherine Leroux

| align="center" | Étude pour l’obéissance

| align="center" | Sarah Bernstein, Study for Obedience

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| align="center" | Geneviève Robichaud, Danielle LeBlanc

| align="center" | Nous, Jane

| align="center" | Aimee Wall, We, Jane

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