1989 Governor General's Awards
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Each winner of the 1989 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada
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Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...
. The winners and nominees were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
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Fiction
Winner:- Paul QuarringtonPaul QuarringtonPaul Lewis Quarrington was a Canadian novelist, playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, musician and educator.-Background:...
, Whale MusicWhale MusicWhale Music is a novel by Canadian writer Paul Quarrington. It was first published by Doubleday Canada in 1989.The novel's central character is Desmond Howl, a reclusive former rock star who has lived in virtual seclusion from the world since the death of his brother Danny in a car accident...
Other Finalists:
- Ann Copeland, The Golden Thread
- Helen Weinzweig, A View from the Roof
Poetry
Winner:- Heather SpearsHeather SpearsHeather Spears is a Canadian poet, novelist, and artist living in Denmark. Educated at the University of British Columbia and the Vancouver School of Art, Spears emigrated to Denmark in 1962 where she also studied at the University of Copenhagen....
, The Word for Sand
Other Finalists:
- Tim LilburnTim LilburnTim Lilburn is a Canadian poet and essayist. He is the author of several critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including Kill-site, To the River, Moosewood Sandhills and his latest work Going Home...
, Tourist to Ecstasy - Stephen ScobieStephen ScobieStephen Scobie is a Canadian poet, critic, and scholar.Born in Carnoustie, Scotland, Scobie relocated to Canada in 1965...
, Dunino
Drama
Winner:- Judith ThompsonJudith ThompsonJudith Clare Thompson, OC is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail once declared that "...in this country, a playwright as good as Judith Thompson is a miracle." She has twice been awarded the Governor General's Award for drama, and is the...
, The Other Side of the Dark
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- Tomson HighwayTomson HighwayTomson Highway, CM is a celebrated Canadian and Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author. He is the author of the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S...
, Dry Lips Oughta Move to KapuskasingDry Lips Oughta Move to KapuskasingDry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing is a play by Tomson Highway, which premiered in 1989 at Theatre Passe-Muraille in Toronto.Set in the fictional Wasaychigan Hill reserve in Northern Ontario, Dry Lips is a companion piece to Highway's earlier play The Rez Sisters... - John KrizancJohn KrizancJohn Krizanc is a Canadian playwright who established an international reputation with his non-linear work, Tamara. Its Toronto production won him a Dora Mavor Moore Award in 1982.-Writing career:...
, TamaraTamara (play)Tamara is a play by John Krizanc. It was premiered at Strachan House in Trinity-Bellwoods Park, Toronto, Canada on May 8, 1981 and published as a book the same year. Tamara won two Dora Mavor Moore Awards in 1982 -- one as outstanding new play, and another as outstanding production. In May, 1984,...
Non-fiction
Winner:- Robert CalderRobert CalderAdmiral Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, KCB was a British naval officer who served in the Seven Years' War, the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.-Early life:...
, Willie-The Life of W. Somerset Maugham
Other Finalists:
- Janice Boddy, Wombs and Alien Spirits
- Robert MacNeilRobert MacNeilRobert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, OC, known sometimes as Robin MacNeil, , is currently a novelist and formerly was a television news anchor and journalist who had paired with Jim Lehrer to create The MacNeil/Lehrer Report in 1975.-Early life:MacNeil was born in Montreal, the son of Margaret...
, Wordstruck - Dale A. Russell, An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America
Children's literature - text
Winner:- Diana Wieler, Bad Boy
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- Kit PearsonKit PearsonKathleen Margaret Pearson is a Canadian writer and winner of numerous literature awards. Pearson is perhaps best known for her linked novels The Sky Is Falling , Looking at the Moon , and The Lights Go On Again , published in 1999 as The Guests of War Trilogy, and Awake and Dreaming which won the...
, The Sky is Falling - Eliane Corbeil Roe, Circle of Light
Children's literature - illustration
Winner:- Robin Muller, The Magic Paintbrush
Other Finalists:
- Michèle Lemieux, A Gift from Saint Francis
- Jan Thornhill, The Wildlife 123
Translation (French to English)
Winner:- Wayne GradyWayne Grady (author)Wayne Grady is a Canadian writer, editor, and translator; currently working as the science editor of Equinox.Grady won the 1989 Governor General's Award for French to English translation for On the Eighth Day, the John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation for Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut and...
, On the Eighth Day
Other Finalists:
- Arlette Francière, Kaleidoscope
- Donald Winkler, Rose and Thorn
Fiction
Winner:- Louis Hamelin, La Rage
Other Finalists:
- Robert Lalonde, Le Diable en personne
- Jacques PoulinJacques PoulinJacques Poulin is a Canadian novelist with a quiet and intimate style of writing.Poulin studied psychology and arts at the Université Laval in Quebec City; he started his career as commercial translator and later became a college guidance counselor...
, Le Vieux Chagrin
Poetry
Winner:- Pierre DesRuisseauxPierre DesRuisseauxPierre DesRuisseaux is a Canadian poet. He was named the fourth Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate on April 28, 2009....
, Monème
Other Finalists:
- Christiane Frenette, Cérémonie mémoire
- Élise TurcotteÉlise TurcotteÉlise Turcotte is a Canadian writer who was born in Sorel, Quebec on June 26, 1957. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the University of Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently...
, La Terre est ici
Drama
Winner:- Michel Garneau, Mademoiselle Rouge
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- Michel Marc BouchardMichel Marc BouchardMichel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...
, Les Muses orphelines - Robert Claing, La Femme d'intérieur
Non-fiction
Winner:- Lise Noël, L'Intolérance : une problématique générale
Other Finalists:
- Jean Éthier-Blais, Fragments d'une enfance
- Pierre MorencyPierre MorencyPierre Morency, OC, CQ is a French Canadian writer, poet and playwright.-Life:Born in Lauzon, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Collège de Lévis in 1963 and a teaching diploma from the Université Laval in 1966.-Awards:...
, L'Oeil américain
Children's literature - text
Winner:- Charles Montpetit, Temps mort
Other Finalists:
- Jacques Lazure, Le Domaine des Sans Yeux
- Joceline Sanschagrin, La Fille aux cheveux rouges
Children's literature - illustration
Winner:- Stéphane Poulin, Benjamin et la saga des oreillers
Other Finalists:
- Frédéric BackFrédéric BackFrédéric Back, OC, CQ is a Canadian artist and film director of short animated films.-Biography:Born in Saarbrücken, The Territory of the Saar Basin, he emigrated to Canada in 1948...
, L'Homme qui plantait des arbres - Philippe Béha, Mais que font les fées avec toutes ces dents?
Translation (English to French)
Winner:- Jean Antonin Billard, Les Âges de l'amour
Other Finalists:
- Ronald Guévremont, Comme un vent chaud de Chine
- Christine Klein-Lataud, Un Oiseau dans la maison