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Works that will have won GGs, as of the prize ceremony on October 25. Many have faded out of print over time, but among the more celebrated are Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient (among his record-breaking five wins), Margaret Atwood’s The Circle Game and The Handmaid’s Tale, and Marshall McLuhan’s The Gutenberg Galaxy.

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Number of weeks Mark L. Winston’s book Bee Time: Lessons from the Hive spent on national bestseller lists after winning the 2015 non-fiction prize. He told the Canada Council it also “resulted in innumerable invitations to speak/read at literary festivals, independent bookstores, libraries and other public and private events.”

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People who signed a petition urging the Canada Council to revoke the 2014 award for Children’s Literature — Text from Raziel Reid’s When Everything Feels Like the Movies, for being “offensive and graphic.” Reid would tell the Guardian, “I didn’t realize there was still such a strong anti-gay sentiment among adults in Canada.”

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Book that has won two GGs, in different years. Pierre Nepveu’s collection Lignes aériennes, about the construction of Mirabel airport, captured the Poésie award in 2003; its English translation, Mirabel, by Judith Cowan, won the Literature in Translation prize in 2004.