The winners of the 1998 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by
Jean-Louis Roux
Jean-Louis Roux, (May 18, 1923 – November 28, 2013) was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
Biography
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he originally studied medicine at the Univer ...
Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts (french: Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It acts as the federal government's principal in ...
on November 17 in Ottawa. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.
Barbara Gowdy
Barbara Gowdy, CM (born 25 June 1950) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.
Literary career
Gowdy's novel '' Falling Angels ...
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The White Bone
''The White Bone'' is a Canadian novel
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The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
''The Colony of Unrequited Dreams'' is a novel by Wayne Johnston, published on September 30, 1998 by Knopf Canada. Johnston's breakthrough work, the novel was a Canadian bestseller, and was shortlisted for the 1998 Giller Prize and the 1998 Gove ...
Stephanie Bolster
Stephanie Bolster (born 1969) is a Canadian poet and professor of creative writing at Concordia University, Montreal.
History
She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing (1991) and a Master of Fine Arts (1994) from the University of Br ...
, ''White Stone: The Alice Poems''
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Louise Bernice Halfe
Louise Bernice Halfe, is a Cree poet and social worker from Canada. Halfe's Cree name is Sky Dancer. At the age of seven, she was forced to attend Blue Quills Residential School in St. Paul, Alberta. Halfe signed with Coteau Books in 1994 and has ...
, ''Blue Marrow''
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Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje (; born 12 September 1943) is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple literary awards such as the Governor General's Award, the Giller ...
, ''Handwriting''
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Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961) is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France.
Life and work
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Robertson moved to British Columbia in 1979, first living on Saltspring Island, then in Vancouver, wh ...
, ''Debbie: An Epic''
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Kathy Shaidle
Kathy Shaidle (7 May 1964 – 9 January 2021) was a Canadian author, columnist, poet and blogger. A self-described "anarcho-peacenik" in the early years of her writing career, she moved to a conservative, Roman Catholic position following the ...
, ''Lobotomy Magnificat''
Drama
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Djanet Sears
Djanet Sears is a Canadian playwright, actor and director, nationally recognized for her work in African-Canadian theatre. Sears has many credits in writing and editing highly acclaimed dramas such as ''Afrika Solo'', the first stage play to be w ...
, ''
Harlem Duet
''Harlem Duet'' is a 1997 dramatic play by Canadian playwright Djanet Sears. Billie, a young graduate student in Harlem, deals with her husband Othello leaving her for a white woman named Mona. The play moves through time to show Billie and ...
Richard Sanger
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, ''Not Spain''
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Sandra Shamas
Sandra Shamas (born 1957) is a Canadian puppeteer, comedic actress, writer, director and producer.
Biography
Shamas was born in Sudbury, Ontario. She moved to Toronto in 1980, where she held a variety of jobs before a workshop at The Second City i ...
, ''Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances''
* David Young, ''Inexpressible Island''
Non-fiction
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David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate.Wayne Grady
Wayne Desmond Grady (born 26 July 1957) is an Australian professional golfer.
Early life
Born in Brisbane, Grady turned professional in 1978.
Professional career
Grady began his career on the PGA Tour of Australia. He had much early succ ...
, ''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''
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Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Henry Wiebe (born 4 October 1934) is a Canadian author and professor emeritus in the department of English at the University of Alberta since 1992.
and Yvonne Johnson, ''Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman''
Children's literature (text)
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Janet Lunn
Janet Louise Lunn, (''née'' Swoboda; December 28, 1928 – June 26, 2017) was a Canadian children's writer.
Early life and education
Lunn was born in Dallas, Texas; she moved with her family to Vermont when she was an infant. In 1938, s ...
Julie Johnston
Julie may refer to:
* Julie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters with the name
Film and television
* ''Julie'' (1956 film), an American film noir starring Doris Day
* ''Julie'' (1975 film), a Hindi film by K. S. Sethumadhava ...
Stéphane Jorisch
Stéphane Jorisch is a Canadian artist and illustrator. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration(once in 1993 for ''Le Monde selon Jean de ...'' and in 1999 for ''Charlotte et l'île du des ...
, ''The Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other Stories''
Translation (from French to English)
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Sheila Fischman
Sheila Leah Fischman (born 1 December 1937) is a Canadian translation, translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Literature of Quebec, Quebec literature from French to English.
Born in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Moose ...
, ''Bambi and Me''
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Arnold Bennett
Enoch Arnold Bennett (27 May 1867 – 27 March 1931) was an English author, best known as a novelist. He wrote prolifically: between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays (some in collaboratio ...
, ''Voltaire's Man in America''
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David Homel
David Homel (born 1952) is an American-Canadian writer and literary translator.Ian McGillis"Montreal's David Homel counsels self-forgiveness in new memoir" ''Montreal Gazette'', April 23, 2021. He is most noted as a two-time winner of the Governo ...
, ''The Second Fiddle''
* Daniel Sloate, ''Aknos and Other Poems''
French-language finalists
Fiction
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Christiane Frenette
Christiane Frenette (born November 18, 1954) is a Quebec educator and writer.
The daughter of Pierrette Duchesne and Claude Frenette, she was born in Quebec City and received a master's degree in Quebec literature from the Université Laval. Fren ...
, ''La Terre ferme''
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Marie-Célie Agnant
Marie-Célie Agnant (born 1953, Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is an author who has been living in Canada since 1970.
Agnant is a writer of poems, novels and novellas, and she has also published children's books. She is also a storyteller and occasiona ...
, ''Le Silence comme le sang''
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Madeleine Gagnon
Madeleine Gagnon (born July 27, 1938) is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Biography
She was born in Amqui in the valley of the Matapedia River and was educated at the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in Moncton, at the Université de M ...
, ''Le Deuil du soleil''
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Nancy Huston
Nancy Louise Huston, OC (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.
Biography
Huston was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, the city in which she ...
, ''L'Empreinte de l'ange''
* Pierre Samson, ''Un garçon de compagnie''
Poetry
* Suzanne Jacob, ''La Part de feu preceded by Le Deuil de la rancune''
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Hugues Corriveau Hugues may refer to
People:
* Hugues de Payens (c. 1070–1136), French soldier
* Hugues I de Lusignan (1194/95 –1218), French-descended ruler a.k.a. Hugh I of Cyprus
* Hugues IV de Berzé (1150s–1220), French soldier
* Hugues II de Lusignan ...
, ''Le Livre du frère''
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Hélène Dorion
Hélène Dorion, (born 21 April 1958) is a Canadian poet, and writer.
Life
Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Dorion taught literature before heading Publisher Noroît from 1991 until 2000. She also conducted a series of audio recordings of poetry and ...
, ''Les Murs de la grotte''
* Christine Richard, ''L'Eau des oiseaux''
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Michel van Schendel
Michel van Schendel (June 16, 1929 - October 9, 2005) was a French-born Canadian writer and journalist from Quebec.
Serge Boucher Serge may refer to:
* Serge (fabric), a type of twill fabric
* Serge (llama) (born 2005), a llama in the Cirque Franco-Italien and internet meme
* Serge (name), a masculine given name (includes a list of people with this name)
* Serge (post), a hi ...
, ''Motel Hélène''
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Olivier Choinière
Olivier Choinière (born July 10, 1973) is a Canadian playwright from Granby, Quebec.Gaëtan Charlebois"Choinière, Olivier" ''Canadian Theatre Encyclopedia'', April 24, 2020. He is most noted as a three-time nominee for the Governor General's ...
Suzanne Lebeau
2015.
Suzanne Lebeau (born April 28, 1948) is a Québécois actor and writer.
The daughter of Blanche Payette and Paul Lebeau, Lebeau was born in Montreal. Drawn to the theatre, she studied with Jacques Crête and Gilles Maheu and performed in ...
, ''L'Ogrelet''
Non-fiction
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Pierre Nepveu
Pierre Nepveu (born 16 September 1946 in Montreal, Quebec) is a French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. As a scholar, he specializes in modern Quebec poetry, in particular the work of Gaston Miron. He taught at the French Studies Depart ...
, ''Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques''
* 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''
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Régine Robin
Régine Robin (born as Rivka Ajzersztejn; 10 December 1939 – 3 February 2021) was a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the socio ...
, ''Le Golem de l'écriture : De l'autofiction au Cybersoi''
* Patricia Smart, ''Les Femmes du Refus global''
Daniel Mativat
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, ''Terreur sur la Windigo''
* Danielle Rochette, ''La Fugue d'Antoine''
*
Hélène Vachon
Hélène Vachon (born 1947) is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
She was born in Quebec City, and studied modern French literature at the Université de Paris X and textual criticism at Laval University. She then worked for the Quebec Minist ...
, ''Le Cinéma de Somerset''
Children's literature (illustration)
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Pierre Pratt
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
, ''Monsieur Ilétaitunefois''
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Stéphane Poulin Stéphane Poulin (born 1961) is a Canadian children's book author and illustrator living in Quebec.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied graphic arts at Collège Ahuntsic. In 1983, Poulin received honourable mention as children's book illu ...
, ''Petit zizi''
* Alain Reno, ''Un tartare pour le bonhomme Sept Heures''
* Yayo, ''Le Chasseur d'arc-en-ciel''
English-to-French translation
* Charlotte Melançon, ''Les Sources du moi : La Formation de l'identité moderne''
* Paule Noyart, ''Leonard Cohen : Le Canadien errant''
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Hélène Rioux
Hélène Rioux (born January 12, 1949) is a French Canadian writer and translator.
She was born in Montreal, Quebec and was educated at the Cégep du Vieux-Montréal, going on to study Russian at the Université de Montréal. Her stories have be ...
Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.
The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...
Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.
The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...