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1999 Governor General's Awards

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The winners of the 1999 Canadian Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16 at the National Library of Canada. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.

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Fiction

  • Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
  • Neil Bissoondath, The Worlds Within Her
  • Anne Fleming, Pool-hopping and Other Stories
  • Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
  • Keith Maillard, Gloria

    • Poetry

  • Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
  • Lynn Davies, The Bridge that Carries the Road
  • Susan Goyette, The True Names of Birds
  • Richard Harrison, Big Breath of a Wish
  • Terence Young, The Island in Winter

    • Drama

  • Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy
  • Wendy Lill, Corker
  • Daniel MacIvor, Marion Bridge
  • Colleen Murphy, Beating Heart Cadaver
  • Theresa Tova, Still the Night

    • Non-fiction

  • Marq de Villiers, Water
  • Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder
  • Michael Bliss, William Osler
  • Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood
  • Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion - A Memoir

    • Children's literature (text)

  • Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day
  • Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange
  • Graham McNamee, Hate You
  • W.D. Valgardson, The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
  • Frieda Wishinsky, Each One Special

    • Children's literature (illustration)

  • Gary Clement, The Great Poochini
  • Rose Cowles, I Know an Old Laddie
  • Zhong-Yang Huang, Dragon New Year
  • Ludmila Zeman, Sindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
  • Werner Zimmermann, Brave Highland Heart

    • French-to-English translation

  • Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (François Ricard, Gabrielle roy, une vie)
  • David Homel, Olivo Oliva (Philippe Poloni, Olivo, Oliva)
  • Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel (her own novel L'Empreinte de l'ange)
  • Lazer Lederhendler, The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half (Claire Dé, Bonheur, Oiseau rare)
  • Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift (Jacques Godbout and Alain Caillé, L'Esprit du don)

    • Fiction

  • Lise Tremblay, La Danse juive
  • Hugues Corriveau, Le Ramasseur de souffle
  • Jacques Marchand, Les Vents dominants
  • Carole Massé, L'Ennemi
  • Gaétan Soucy, La Petite Fille qui aimait trop les allumettes

    • Poetry

  • Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations
  • Claude Beausoleil, Le Chant du voyageur
  • Nicole Brossard, Musée de l'os et de l'eau
  • Carole David, La Maison d'Ophélie
  • Pierre Ouellet, Dieu sait quoi

    • Drama

  • Jean-Marc Dalpé, Il n'y a que l'amour
  • Carole Fréchette, Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse
  • René Gingras, D'Avila
  • Michel Tremblay, Encore une fois, si vous permettez

    • Non-fiction

  • Pierre Perrault, Le Mal du Nord
  • Anne Élaine Cliche, Dire le livre
  • Jean-Claude Dubé, Le Chevalier de Montmagny: Premier gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France
  • François-Marc Gagnon, Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois 1941-1954
  • Daniel Jacques, Nationalité et Modernité

    • Children's literature (text)

  • Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas...
  • Agathe Génois, Adieu, vieux lézard!
  • Andrée-Anne Gratton, Le Message du biscuit chinois
  • Sylvie Nicolas, Célestine Motamo
  • Raymond Plante, Marilou Polaire et l'iguane des neiges

    • Children's literature (illustration)

  • Stéphane Jorisch, Charlotte et l'île du destin
  • Nicole Lafond, Contes pour enfants
  • Michèle Lemieux, Nuit d'orage
  • Luc Melanson, La Petite Kim
  • Pierre Pratt, La Vie exemplaire de Martha et Paul

    • English-to-French translation

  • Jacques Brault, Transfiguration
  • Charlotte Melançon, Réflexions d'un frère siamois
  • Marie José Thériault, Ours

    • References

    1999 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia
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