1992 Governor General's Awards
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Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 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 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:- Michael OndaatjeMichael OndaatjePhilip Michael Ondaatje , OC, is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist and poet of Burgher origin. He is perhaps best known for his Booker Prize-winning novel, The English Patient, which was adapted into an Academy-Award-winning film.-Life and work:...
, The English PatientThe English PatientThe English Patient is a 1992 novel by Sri Lankan-Canadian novelist Michael Ondaatje. The story deals with the gradually revealed histories of a critically burned English accented Hungarian man, his Canadian nurse, a Canadian-Italian thief, and an Indian sapper in the British Army as they live out...
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- Sandra BirdsellSandra BirdsellSandra Louise Birdsell, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage....
, The Chrome Suite - Archie Crail, The Bonus Deal
- John StefflerJohn Steffler-Biography:Born in Toronto, Ontario, Steffler was educated at the University of Toronto and the University of Guelph. Since 1975 he has lived in Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador where he taught at Sir Wilfred Grenfell College...
, The Afterlife of George Cartwright - Sheila Watson, Deep Hollow Creek
Poetry
Winner:- Lorna CrozierLorna CrozierLorna Crozier is a Canadian poet and holds the Head Chair in the Writing Department at the University of Victoria....
, Inventing the Hawk
Other Finalists:
- Evelyn LauEvelyn Lau- Biography :Lau was born in Vancouver, British Columbia to Chinese-Canadian parents, who intended for her to eventually become a doctor. Her parents' ambitions for her were wholly irreconcilable with her own; consequently, her home and school lives were desperately unhappy...
, Oedipal Dreams - Laura Lush, Hometown
- Steve McCafferySteve McCafferySteven McCaffery is a Canadian poet and scholar who was a professor at York University. He currently holds the Gray Chair at SUNY Buffalo . McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Toronto in 1968...
, Theory of Sediment - Kathleen McCracken, Blue Light, Bay and College
Drama
Winner:- John MightonJohn MightonJohn Mighton, OC is a Canadian author and mathematician. He is the founder of JUMP , a charitable organization that works to educate students in mathematics. He is the author of The Myth of Ability and The End of Ignorance...
, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night
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- Daniel BrooksDaniel BrooksDaniel Brooks is a Canadian theatre director, actor and playwright. He was born in Toronto, Ontario.A highly regarded theatre maker in Toronto's "alternative" theatre scene, Daniel Brooks has a reputation for creating and directing cutting edge productions which combine fiercely intellectual...
and Guillermo VerdecchiaGuillermo VerdecchiaGuillermo Verdecchia is a Canadian theatre artist.Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario...
, The Noam Chomsky Lectures - Dave CarleyDave CarleyDave Carley is a Canadian playwright. He has written for stage, radio and television. His plays have had over 400 productions, and have been produced across Canada and the United States, and in other countries...
, Writing With Our Feet - 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...
, Lion in the Streets - Dianne WarrenDianne WarrenDianne Warren is a Canadian novelist, dramatist and short story writer, who lives in Regina, Saskatchewan.-Background:...
, Serpent in the Night Sky
Non-fiction
Winner:- Maggie SigginsMaggie SigginsMaggie Siggins is a Canadian journalist and writer. She was a recipient of the 1992 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit for her non-fiction work Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm...
, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
Other Finalists:
- Michael BlissMichael BlissJohn William Michael Bliss, CM, FRSC is a Canadian historian and award-winning author. Though his early works focused on business and political history, he has written several important medical biographies, including of Sir William Osler...
, 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
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- Margaret BuffieMargaret BuffieMargaret Buffie is a Canadian children's author.A graduate of the University of Manitoba Bachelor of Fine Arts, Buffie worked for many years as a visual artist before beginning a writing career in 1985. Her first manuscript, a novel entitled Who is Frances Rain? , was published by Kids Can Press...
, My Mother's Ghost - John IbbitsonJohn IbbitsonJohn Ibbitson is a Canadian writer and journalist. He is currently Ottawa Bureau Chief for The Globe and Mail...
, 1812: Jeremy and the General - Thomas King, A Coyote Columbus Story
- 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...
, 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. ReedFred A. ReedFred A. Reed is a journalist and translator of literature who has published and translated several books.-Books:*Persian postcards: Iran after Khomemi. Talonbooks. 1994. ISBN 0889224439...
, Imagining the Middle East
Other Finalists:
- Neil B. Bishop, Death of the Spider
- Sheila FischmanSheila FischmanSheila Leah Fischman, CM is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature....
, Felicity's Fool - Luise von Flotow, Deathly Delights
- Agnes Whitfield, Divine Diva
Fiction
Winner:- Anne HébertAnne HébertAnne Hébert, CC, OQ , was a Canadian author and poet. She is a descendant of famed French-Canadian historian Francois-Xavier Garneau, "and has carried on the family literary tradition spectacularly."...
, L'enfant chargé de songes
Other Finalists:
- Lise BissonnetteLise BissonnetteLise Bissonnette, OQ is a Canadian writer and journalist.Born in Rouyn, Quebec, Bissonnette studied education science at the Université de Montréal from 1965 to 1970. She later pursed doctoral studies at the University of Strasbourg and the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. In 1974, she...
, 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 TurgeonPierre TurgeonPierre Turgeon is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche...
, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James
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- Gilles BoileauGilles BoileauGilles Boileau , the elder brother of the more famous Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, was a French translator and member of the Académie française....
, Le silence des Messieurs. Oka, terre indienne - Jean MarcelJean MarcelJean Marcel was the seventh Anglican Bishop of Madagascar from 1961 to 1969 when the diocese split into three. Marcel then became Bishop of Antananarivo until 1975....
, Pensées, passions et proses - 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:...
, 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 RochonEsther RochonEsther Rochon is a Canadian science fiction writer.Born in Quebec City, Quebec, the daughter of a scriptwriter and a composer, at the age of 16 she won the Governor General First Prize for a short story in the Young Author's contest of Radio Canada...
, 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