1998 Governor General's Awards

1998 Governor General's Awards

The winners of the 1998 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts on November 17th in Ottawa. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Diane Schoemperlen, "Forms of Devotion"

Other Finalists:
*Lynn Coady, "Strange Heaven"
*Barbara Gowdy, "The White Bone"
*Wayne Johnston, "The Colony of Unrequited Dreams"
*Kerri Sakamoto, "The Electrical Field"

Poetry

Winner:
*Stephanie Bolster, "White Stone: The Alice Poems"

Other Finalists:
*Louise Bernice Halfe, "Blue Marrow"
*Michael Ondaatje, "Handwriting"
*Lisa Robertson, "Debbie: An Epic"
*Kathy Shaidle, "Lobotomy Magnificat"

Drama

Winner:
*Djanet Sears, "Harlem Duet"

Other Finalists:
*Bruce McManus, "Selkirk Avenue"
*Richard Sanger, "Not Spain"
*Sandra Shamas, "Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances"
*David Young, "Inexpressible Island"

Nonfiction

Winner:
*David Adams Richards, "Lines on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi"

Other Finalists:
*Wayne Grady, "The Quiet Limit of the World - A Journey to the North Pole to Investigate Global Warming"
*Charlotte Gray, "Mrs. King - The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King"
*Judy Schultz, "Mamie's Children - Three Generations of Prairie Women"
*Rudy Wiebe and Yvonne Johnson, "Stolen Life - The Journey of a Cree Woman"

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Janet Lunn, "The Hollow Tree"

Other Finalists:
*Gayle Friesen, "Janey's Girl"
*Julie Johnston, "The Only Outcast"
*Janet McNaughton, "Make or Break Spring"
*Sarah Withrow, "Bat Summer"

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
*Kady MacDonald Denton, "A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes"

Other Finalists:
*Victor Bosson, "The Fox's Kettle"
*Harvey Chan, "Music for the Tsar of the Sea"
*Zhong-Yang Huang, "The Great Race"
*Stéphane Jorisch, "The Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other Stories"

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:
*Sheila Fischman, "Bambi and Me"

Other Finalists:
*Arnold Bennett, "Voltaire's Man in America"
*David Homel, "The Second Fiddle"
*Daniel Sloate, "Aknos and Other Poems"

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Christiane Frenette, "La Terre ferme"

Other Finalists:
*Marie-Célie Agnant, "Le Silence comme le sang"
*Madeleine Gagnon, "Le Deuil du soleil"
*Nancy Huston, "L'Empreinte de l'ange"
*Pierre Samson, "Un garçon de compagnie"

Poetry

Winner:
*Suzanne Jacob, "La Part de feu preceded by Le Deuil de la rancune"

Other Finalists:
*Hugues Corriveau, "Le Livre du frère"
*Hélène Dorion, "Les Murs de la grotte"
*Christine Richard, "L'Eau des oiseaux"
*Michel van Schendel, "Bitumes"

Drama

Winner:
*François Archambault, "15 secondes"

Other Finalists:
*Serge Boucher, "Motel Hélène"
*Olivier Choinière, "Le Bain des raines"
*Carole Fréchette, "La Peau d'Élisa"
*Suzanne Lebeau, "L'Ogrelet"

Nonfiction

Winner:
*Pierre Nepveu, "Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques"

Other Finalists:
*Chantal Bouchard, "La Langue et le Nombril : Histoire d'une obsession québécoise"
*Marcel Olscamp, "Le Fils du notaire Jacques Ferron 1921-1949 : Genèse intellectuelle d'un écrivain"
*Régine Robin, "Le Golem de l'écriture : De l'autofiction au Cybersoi"
*Patricia Smart, "Les Femmes du Refus global"

Children's Literature -- Text

Winner:
*Angèle Delaunois, "Variations sur un même &laqno;t'aime»"

Other Finalists:
*Guy Dessureault, "Lettre de Chine"
*Daniel Mativat, "Terreur sur la Windigo"
*Danielle Rochette, "La Fugue d'Antoine"
*Hélène Vachon, "Le Cinéma de Somerset"

Children's Literature -- Illustration

Winner:
*Pierre Pratt, "Monsieur Ilétaitunefois"

Other Finalists:
*Stéphane Poulin, "Petit zizi"
*Alain Reno, "Un tartare pour le bonhomme Sept Heures"
*Yayo, "Le Chasseur d'arc-en-ciel"

Translation (English to French)

Winner:
*Charlotte Melançon, "Les Sources du moi - La Formation de l'identité moderne"

Other Finalists:
*Paule Noyart, "Leonard Cohen - Le Canadien errant"
*Hélène Rioux, "Self"


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