1992 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient"

Other Finalists:
*Sandra Birdsell, "The Chrome Suite"
*Archie Crail, "The Bonus Deal"
*John Steffler, "The Afterlife of George Cartwright"
*Sheila Watson, "Deep Hollow Creek"

Poetry

Winner:
*Lorna Crozier, "Inventing the Hawk"

Other Finalists:
*Evelyn Lau, "Oedipal Dreams"
*Laura Lush, "Hometown"
*Steve McCaffery, "Theory of Sediment"
*Kathleen McCracken, "Blue Light, Bay and College"

Drama

Winner:
*John Mighton, "Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night"

Other Finalists:
*Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia, "The Noam Chomsky Lectures"
*Dave Carley, "Writing With Our Feet"
*Judith Thompson, "Lion in the Streets"
*Dianne Warren, "Serpent in the Night Sky"

Non-fiction

Winner:
*Maggie Siggins, "Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm"

Other Finalists:
*Michael Bliss, "Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal"
*Ken Cuthbertson, "Inside: The Biography of John Gunther"
*Michael R. Marrus, "Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman"

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Julie Johnston, "Hero of Lesser Causes"

Other Finalists:
*Margaret Buffie, "My Mother's Ghost"
*John Ibbitson, "1812: Jeremy and the General"
*Thomas King, "A Coyote Columbus Story"
*Kit Pearson, "Looking at the Moon"

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
*Ron Lightburn, "Waiting for the Whales"

Other Finalists:
*Eric Beddows, "Zoom Upstream"
*Suzanne Duranceau, "Hickory, Dickory, Dock"
*Maryann Kovalski, "The Big Storm"
*Mireille Levert, "When Jeremiah Found Mrs. Ming"

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:
*Fred A. Reed, "Imagining the Middle East"

Other Finalists:
*Neil B. Bishop, "Death of the Spider"
*Sheila Fischman, "Felicity's Fool"
*Luise von Flotow, "Deathly Delights"
*Agnes Whitfield, "Divine Diva"

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Anne Hébert, "L'enfant chargé de songes"

Other Finalists:
*Lise Bissonnette, "Marie suivait l'été"
*Louis Lefebvre, "Guanahani"
*Gilles Pellerin, "Je reviens avec la nuit"
*Louise Simard, "La très noble demoiselle"

Poetry

Winners:
*Gilles Cyr, "Andromède attendra"

Other Finalists:
*Paul Bélanger, "Retours suivi de Minuit, l'aube"
*Yves Boisvert, "La balance du vent"
*Pierre Ouellet, "Fonds suivi de Faix"
*Jean-Noël Pontbriand, "Lieux - Passages"

Drama

Winner:
*Louis-Dominique Lavigne, "Les petits orteils"

Other Finalists:
*Dominic Champagne, "La cité interdite"
*Robert Claing, "Anna"
*Marie Laberge, "Pierre ou la consolation"
*Marthe Mercure, "Tu faisais comme un appel"

Non-fiction

Winner:
*Pierre Turgeon, "La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James"

Other Finalists:
*Gilles Boileau, "Le silence des Messieurs. Oka, terre indienne"
*Jean Marcel, "Pensées, passions et proses"
*Pierre Morency, "Lumière des oiseaux"
*Louis Sabourin, "Passion d'être, désir d'avoir"

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Christiane Duchesne, "Victor"

Other Finalists:
*Linda Brousseau, "Coups durs pour une sorcière"
*Dominique Demers, "Un hiver de tourmente"
*Esther Rochon, "L'ombre et le cheval"
*Daniel Sernine, "Les rêves d'Argus"

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
*Gilles Tibo, "Simon et la ville de carton"

Other Finalists:
*Honey Fox, "Le bébé de Lulu"
*Pierre Pratt, "Léon sans son chapeau"
*Daniel Sylvestre, "Mais qui va trouver le trésor?"

Translation (from English to French)

Winner:
*Jean Papineau, "La mémoire postmoderne"

Other Finalists:
*Marie-Luce Constant, "Les princes marchands"
*Hervé Juste, "Le Canada aux enchères"
*Michèle Marineau, "Le monde merveilleux de Marigold"

Other Governor General's Awards: