Piolet d'Or Piolet d'Or The Piolet d'Or (, French for "Golden Ice Axe") is an annual mountaineering award given by the French magazine "Montagnes" and The "Groupe de Haute Montagne" since 1991. Nominations are selected by GHM and "Montagnes", and the award is chosen by a jury consisting of Guy Chaumereuil (the chief editor of "Montagnes" when the award was inaugurated), (until 1998) Jean-Claude Marmier (president of GHM when the award was inaugurated), the current president of GHM, the current editor of "Montagnes", the previous year's winners and three members invited by GHM, one of whom becomes the president of the jury.
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction Council did not present any awards for French-language literature, although four works originally published in French — Ringuet's "Thirty Acres", Germaine Guèvremont's "The Outlander", and Gabrielle Roy's "The Tin Flute" and "Street of Riches" — won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction when a followup English translation was published. The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Since then, the advance shortlist has numbered three to six; from 2002, always five. Governor General's Award for French-language fiction The Governor General's Award for French-language fiction is a Canadian literary award