This is a list of recipients of the Governor General's Award for French-to-English translation.
Winners and nominees
1980s
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!Year
!width="25%"|Author
!width="45%"|Title
!width="30%"|Translated work
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4" | 1987
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Patricia Claxton
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Gabrielle Roy, La Détresse et l'enchantement
|-
| align="center" | Sheila Fischman
| align="center" | Heartbreaks Along the Road
| align="center" | Roch Carrier, De l'amour dans la ferraille
|-
| align="center" | Anthony Martin-Sperry
| align="center" | Languages and Their Territories
| align="center" | J. A. Laponce, Langue et territoire
|-
| align="center" | Patricia Sillers
| align="center" | The Dragon and Other Laurentian Tales
| align="center" | Claude Jasmin, Les contes du Sommet-Bleu
|-
| align="center" rowspan="4"| 1988
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Philip Stratford
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Second Chance
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Diane Hébert, Un Second souffle
|-
| align="center" | Arnold Bennett
| align="center" | The History of the Labour Movement in Quebec
| align="center" | Michel Doré, Louise Fournier, [title unknown]
|-
| align="center" | Jane Brierley
| align="center" | A Man of Sentiment: The Memoirs of Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé
| align="center" | Philippe-Joseph Aubert de Gaspé, Mémoires
|-
| align="center" | David Homel
| align="center" | How to Make Love to a Negro
| align="center" | Dany Laferrière, Comment faire l'amour avec un nègre sans se fatiguer
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 1989
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Wayne Grady
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| On the Eighth Day
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Antonine Maillet, Le Huitième jour
|-
| align="center" | Arlette Francière
| align="center" | Kaleidoscope
| align="center" | Michel Beaulieu, Kaléidoscope, ou les aléas du corps grave
|-
| align="center" | Donald Winkler
| align="center" | Rose and Thorn
| align="center" | Roland Giguère, selected poetry
|}
1990s
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!Year
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Donald Winkler
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| The Major Verbs
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Pierre Nepveu, Les verbes majeurs
|-
| align="center" | Robert Majzels
| align="center" | For Sure
| align="center" | France Daigle, Pour sûr
|-
| align="center" | Rhonda Mullins
| align="center" | And the Birds Rained Down
| align="center" | Jocelyne Saucier, Il pleuvait des oiseaux
|-
| align="center" | George Tombs
| align="center" | Canada's Forgotten Slaves: Two Hundred Years of Bondage
| align="center" | Marcel Trudel, Deux siècles d’esclavage au Québec
|-
| align="center" | Luise von Flotow
| align="center" | The Stalinist's Wife
| align="center" | France Théoret, La femme du stalinien
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2014
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Peter Feldstein
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86"| François-Marc Gagnon, '
|-
| align="center" | Sheila Fischman
| align="center" | Wonder
| align="center" | Dominique Fortier, Les larmes de saint Laurent
|-
| align="center" | Linda Gaboriau
| align="center" | Christina, The Girl King
| align="center" | Michel Marc Bouchard, Christine, la reine-garçon
|-
| align="center" | Maureen Labonté
| align="center" | And Slowly Beauty
| align="center" | Michel Nadeau, Lentement la beauté
|-
| align="center" | Rhonda Mullins
| align="center" | Guyana
| align="center" | Élise Turcotte, Guyana
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2015
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Rhonda Mullins
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Twenty-One Cardinals
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Jocelyne Saucier, Les Héritiers de la mine
|-
| align="center" | David Scott Hamilton
| align="center" | Captive
| align="center" | Claudine Dumont, Anabiose
|-
| align="center" | Lazer Lederhendler
| align="center" | The Lake
| align="center" | Perrine Leblanc, Malabourg
|-
| align="center" | Susan Ouriou, Christelle Morelli
| align="center" | Stolen Sisters: The Story of Two Missing Girls, Their Families and How Canada Has Failed Indigenous Women
| align="center" | Emmanuelle Walter, Sœurs volées: Enquête sur un féminicide au Canada
|-
| align="center" | Donald Winkler
| align="center" | Arvida
| align="center" | Samuel Archibald, Arvida
|-
| align="center" rowspan="3"| 2016
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Lazer Lederhendler
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | The Party Wall
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Catherine Leroux, Le mur mitoyen
|-
| align="center" | Rhonda Mullins
| align="center" | Guano
| align="center" | Louis Carmain, Guano
|-
| align="center" | Neil Smith
| align="center" | The Goddess of Fireflies
| align="center" | Geneviève Pettersen, La déesse des mouches à feu
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2017
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Oana Avasilichioaei
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Readopolis
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Bertrand Laverdure, Lectodôme
|-
| align="center" | Katia Grubisic
| align="center" | Brothers
| align="center" | David Clerson, Frères
|-
| align="center" | Howard Scott
| align="center" | Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries
| align="center" | Gérard Bouchard, Raison et déraison du mythe
|-
| align="center" | Pablo Strauss
| align="center" | The Longest Year
| align="center" | Daniel Grenier, L'année la plus longue
|-
| align="center" | W. Donald Wilson
| align="center" | In Search of New Babylon
| align="center" | Dominique Scali, À la recherche de New Babylon
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2018
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Descent Into Night
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Edem Awumey, Explication de la nuit
|-
| align="center" | Vivian Felsen
| align="center" | Jacob Isaac Segal: A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
| align="center" | Pierre Anctil, Jacob-Isaac Segal (1896–1954) : un poète yiddish de Montréal et son milieu
|-
| align="center" | Aleshia Jensen
| align="center" | Explosions: Michael Bay and the Pyrotechnics of the Imagination
| align="center" | Mathieu Poulin, Des explosions
|-
| align="center" | Peter McCambridge
| align="center" | Songs for the Cold of Heart
| align="center" | Éric Dupont, La fiancée américaine
|-
| align="center" | Rhonda Mullins
| align="center" | Little Beast
| align="center" | Julie Demers, Barbe
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2019
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Linda Gaboriau
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Birds of a Kind
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Wajdi Mouawad, Tous des oiseaux
|-
| align="center" | Louisa Blair
| align="center" | 887
| align="center" | Robert Lepage, 887
|-
| align="center" | Sheila Fischman
| align="center" | Vi
| align="center" | Kim Thúy, Vi
|-
| align="center" | Rhonda Mullins
| align="center" | The Embalmer
| align="center" | Anne-Renée Caillé, L'embaumeur
|-
| align="center" | Pablo Strauss
| align="center" | Synapses
| align="center" | Simon Brousseau, Synapses
|}
2020s
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!Year
!width="25%"|Author
!width="45%"|Title
!width="30%"|Translated work
!Ref
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2020
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Lazer Lederhendler
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | If You Hear Me
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Pascale Quiviger, Si tu m'entends
| align="center" |
|-
| align="center" | Oana Avasilichioaei
| align="center" | The Neptune Room
| align="center" | Bertrand Laverdure, La chambre neptune
| align="center" rowspan=4|
|-
| align="center" | Alexis Diamond
| align="center" | Amaryllis & Little Witch
| align="center" | Pascal Brullemans, Vipérine and Petit sorcière
|-
| align="center" | Pablo Strauss
| align="center" | The Country Will Bring Us No Peace
| align="center" | Matthieu Simard, Ici, ailleurs
|-
| align="center" | J. C. Sutcliffe
| align="center" | Back Roads
| align="center" | Andrée A. Michaud, Routes secondaires
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2021
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Erín Moure
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | This Radiant Life
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Chantal Neveu, La vie radieuse
| align="center" |
|-
| align="center" | Helge Dascher, Rob Aspinall
| align="center" | Paul at Home
| align="center" | Michel Rabagliati, Paul à la maison
| align="center" rowspan=4 |
|-
| align="center" | Peter Feldstein
| align="center" | People, State, and War Under the French Regime in Canada
| align="center" | Louise Dechêne, Le Peuple, lʼÉtat et la Guerre au Canada sous le Régime français
|-
| align="center" | Katia Grubisic
| align="center" | A Cemetery for Bees
| align="center" | Alina Dumitrescu, Le cimetière des abeilles
|-
| align="center" | Susan Ouriou
| align="center" | The Lover, the Lake
| align="center" | Virginia Pésémapéo Bordeleau, L'amant du lac
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2022
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Judith Weisz Woodsworth
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | History of the Jews in Quebec
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Pierre Anctil, Histoire des juifs au Québec
| align="center" |
|-
| align="center" | Aleshia Jensen
| align="center" | Remnants
| align="center" | Céline Huyghebaert, Le drap blanc
| align="center" rowspan=4 |
|-
| align="center" | Aleshia Jensen, Bronwyn Haslam
| align="center" | This Is How I Disappear
| align="center" | Mirion Malle, Cʼest comme ça que je disparais
|-
| align="center" | Susan Ouriou
| align="center" | White Resin
| align="center" | Audrée Wilhelmy, Blanc Résine
|-
| align="center" | Ben Vrignon
| align="center" | They Called Us Savages: A Hereditary Chiefʼs Quest for Truth and Harmony
| align="center" | Dominique Rankin, Marie-Josée Tardif, On nous appelait les Sauvages : souvenirs et espoirs dʼun chef héréditaire algonquin
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2023
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Peter McCambridge
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Rosa's Very Own Personal Revolution
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Éric Dupont, La Logeuse
| align="center" |
|-
| align="center" | Arielle Aaronson
| align="center" | Alone: The Journeys of Three Young Refugees
| align="center" | Paul Tom, Seuls
| align="center" rowspan=4 |
|-
| align="center" | D. M. Bradford
| align="center" | House Within a House
| align="center" | Nicholas Dawson, Désormais, ma demeure
|-
| align="center" | Émilie Monnet
| align="center" | Okinum
| align="center" | Émilie Monnet, Okinum
|-
| align="center" | Susan Ouriou
| align="center" | Kukum
| align="center" | Michel Jean, Kukum
|-
| rowspan="5"| 2024
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Katia Grubisic
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Nights Too Short to Dance
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Marie-Claire Blais, Un cœur habité de mille voix
| align="center" |
|-
| align="center" | Melissa Bull
| align="center" | Morel
| align="center" | Maxime Raymond Bock, Morel
| rowspan=4|
|-
| align="center" | Aleshia Jensen
| align="center" | So Long Sad Love
| align="center" | Mirion Malle, Adieu triste amour
|-
| align="center" | Lazer Lederhendler
| align="center" | The Hollow Beast
| align="center" | Christophe Bernard, La bête creuse
|-
| align="center" | Aimee Wall
| align="center" | Sadie X
| align="center" | Clara Dupuis-Morency, Sadie X
|-
| align="center" rowspan="5"| 2025
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Jessica Moore
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Uiesh/Somewhere
| align="center" style="background:#FAEB86" | Joséphine Bacon, Uiesh/Quelque part
| align="center" |
|-
| align="center" | Phyllis Aronoff, Howard Scott
| align="center" | Farida
| align="center" | Monia Mazigh, Farida
| align="center" rowspan=4|
|-
| align="center" | Helge Dascher, Rob Aspinall
| align="center" | Muybridge
| align="center" | Guy Delisle, Muybridge
|-
| align="center" | Catherine Khordoc
| align="center" | Baldwin, Styron and Me
| align="center" | Mélikah Abdelmoumen, Baldwin, Styron et moi
|-
| align="center" | Donald Winkler
| align="center" | May Our Joy Endure
| align="center" | Kev Lambert, Que notre joie demeure
|}