Live Chat: The GG winners in fiction and non-fiction

Patrick deWitt and Charles Foran are among the winners of the 75th Governor General's Literary Awards, which were announced at a press conference in Toronto on Tuesday.

Foran won the English-language non-fiction prize for Mordecai: The Life & Times, a critically acclaimed biography of Montreal writer Mordecai Richler, which also took this year's Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize and the Charles Taylor Prize.

DeWitt won the English-language fiction award for The Sisters Brothers, his novel about two outlaw siblings in the era of the California Gold Rush. The Sisters Brothers recently picked up the Rogers Writers' Trust Award and was a contender for this year's Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Man Booker Prize.

Each winner receives $25,000 and a specially bound copy of his or her book. The other finalists in each category receive $1,000 each.

Poetry: Phil Hall (Perth, Ont.) for Killdeer

Drama: Erin Shields (Toronto) for If We Were Birds

Children's literature, text: Christopher Moore (Toronto) for From Then to Now: A Short History of the World

Children's literature, illustration: Cybèle Young (Toronto) for Ten Birds

Translation (to English): Donald Winkler (Montreal) for Partita for Glenn Gould

The French-language winners are:

Fiction: Perrine Leblanc (Montreal) for L'homme blanc

Non-fiction: Georges Leroux (Montreal) for Wanderer: essai sur le Voyage d'hiver de Franz Schubert

Poetry: Louise Dupré (Montreal) for Plus haut que les flammes

Drama: Normand Chaurette (Montreal) for Ce qui meurt en dernier

Children's literature, text: Martin Fournier (Quebec) for Les aventures de Radisson - 1. L'enfer ne brûle pas

Children's literature, illustration: Caroline Merola (Montreal) for Lili et les poilus

Translation (to French): Maryse Warda (Montreal) for Toxique ou L'incident dans l'autobus

Governor General David Johnston will present the awards to this year's winners at a Rideau Hall gala on Nov. 24.