1996 Governor General's Awards
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The 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented on November 14, 1996.
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Non-Fiction
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Children's Literature - Text
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Children's Literature - Illustraion
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Translation - from French to English
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Poetry
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Drama
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Non-Fiction
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Children's Literature - Text
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Children's Literature - Illustration
The jury decided not to award the Prize in this category in 1996. The jury felt that none of the works submitted this year met the standards of excellence of the Governor General's Literary Awards.
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English Language
FictionWinner:
- Guy VanderhaegheGuy VanderhaegheGuy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his two Western novels, The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, set in the 19th century American and Canadian West...
, The Englishman's Boy
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- Margaret AtwoodMargaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
, Alias Grace - Elisabeth HarvorElisabeth HarvorErica Elisabeth Arendt Harvor is a Canadian novelist and poet who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, the daughter of Danish immigrants who made pottery by hand, Harvour grew up in Saint John and on the Kingston Peninsula. She married Stig Harvor in 1957. The couple had...
, Let Me Be the One - Janice Kulyk KeeferJanice Kulyk KeeferJanice Kulyk Keefer is a Canadian novelist and poet.Born in Toronto, she studied literature at universities in England and France, and currently teaches literature and theatre in the graduate studies department at the University of Guelph....
, The Green Library - Cordelia StrubeCordelia StrubeCordelia Strube is a Canadian playwright and novelist.Raised in Montreal, Quebec, Strube began her career as an actor. After winning a CBC Literary Award for her first radio play, Mortal, she wrote nine more radio plays for CBC Radio before publishing her debut novel, Alex & Zee, in 1994. The novel...
, Teaching Pigs to Sing - Audrey ThomasAudrey ThomasAudrey Grace Thomas, OC is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives on Galiano Island, British Columbia.-Biography:...
, Coming Down from Wa
Poetry
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- E. D. BlodgettE. D. BlodgettEdward Dickinson Blodgett is a Canadian poet, literary critic, and translator who won the Governor General's Award for poetry in 1996 for his collection Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano.- Biography :...
, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
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- Elizabeth BrewsterElizabeth BrewsterElizabeth Winifred Brewster, CM is a Canadian poet and academic.Born in Chipman, New Brunswick, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of New Brunswick, a Master of Arts degree from Radcliffe College, a Bachelor of Library Science from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D....
, Footnotes to the Book of Job - Crispin Elsted, Climate and the Affections
- Charles LillardCharles LillardCharles "Red" Lillard was a poet and historian specializing in British Columbia, Southeast Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.He was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Ketchikan, Alaska...
, Shadow Weather - Erin MouréErin MouréErin Mouré is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry from languages which include, French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish to English. Her mother Mary Irene was born 1924 in Galicia, Poland and moved to Canada in 1929. Erin’s father is William Moure born in Ottawa Canada in 1925...
, Search Procedures
Drama
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- Colleen Wagner, The Monument
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- Wendy LillWendy LillWendy Lill is an award-winning Canadian playwright, screenwriter and radio dramatist who served as an NDP Member of Parliament from 1997 to 2004. Her stage plays have been performed extensively in theatres across Canada as well as internationally in such countries as Scotland, Denmark and Germany...
, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum - 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...
, The Little Years - Michael O'BrienMichael O'BrienMichael or Mike O'Brien may refer to:* Michael O'Brien , American poet* Michael O'Brien , West Coast Eagles...
, Mad Boy Chronicle - Betty Quan, Mother Tongue
Non-Fiction
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- John Ralston SaulJohn Ralston SaulJohn Ralston Saul, CC is a Canadian author, essayist, and President of International PEN.As an essayist, Saul is particularly known for his commentaries on the nature of individualism, citizenship and the public good; the failures of manager-, or more precisely technocrat-, led societies; the...
, The Unconscious Civilization
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- Roy MacGregorRoy MacGregorRoy MacGregor is a Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction. He grew up in Huntsville, Ontario. His work tends to focus on Canadian topics; Shelagh Rogers has dubbed him the "heir to Peter Gzowski"...
, The Home Team - Fathers, Sons & Hockey - T.F. Rigelhof, A Blue Boy in a Black Dress
- Lake SagarisLake SagarisLake Sagaris is a Canadian journalist, poet and translator who lives in Chile.Her book After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile, Time, Mind was a non-fiction finalist for the 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit....
, After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile, Time, Mind - Merilyn SimondsMerilyn SimondsMerilyn Simonds is a Canadian writer.- Biography :Merilyn Simonds spent her childhood in Brazil, and returned to Canada as a teenager, where she was educated at the University of Western Ontario. She subsequently worked as a freelance writer, and was an editor of Harrowsmith.Her most famous book...
, The Convict Lover: A True Story
Children's Literature - Text
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- Paul YeePaul YeePaul Yee is a Chinese-Canadian writer. He is third-generation Canadian and was born in Saskatchewan in 1956 but grew up in Vancouver's Chinatown. Yee holds a Master's degree in Canadian history from the University of British Columbia and worked as archivist at City of Vancouver Archives and at...
, Ghost Train
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- Jan Andrews, Keri
- David BoydDavid BoydDavid Boyd may refer to:* David Boyd , Australian artist* David Boyd , Canadian children's author* David Boyd , cinematographer* David Boyd , Australian rugby league player...
, Bottom Drawer - Gillian ChanGillian ChanGillian Chan is a Canadian children's author who lives in Dundas, Ontario.Gillian Chan is also the author of a short diary entry of Chin Mei-ling's during the Christmas week a year or so after the original diary ended for the Christmas treasury from the Dear Canada series, A Season for Miracles:...
, Glory Days and Other Stories - Don Gillmor, The Fabulous Song
Children's Literature - Illustraion
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- Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift
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- Alan and Lea Daniel, Sody Salleratus
- Wang Kui, The Wise Washerman - A Folktale from Burma
- Johnny Wales, Gruntle Piggle Takes Off
- Werner ZimmermannWerner ZimmermannWerner Zimmermann is a Swiss slalom and sprint canoer who competed from the mid 1930s to the early 1950s. As a slalom canoer, he won a bronze medal in the folding K-1 event at the 1949 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Geneva....
, Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe!
Translation - from French to English
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- Linda GaboriauLinda GaboriauLinda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....
, Stone and Ashes
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- Sheila FischmanSheila FischmanSheila Leah Fischman, CM is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature....
, Ostend - D.G. Jones, For Orchestra and Solo Poet
- Shelley Tepperman, In Vitro
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- Marie-Claire BlaisMarie-Claire BlaisMarie-Claire Blais, is a Canadian author and playwright.- Life :Born in Quebec City, Quebec, she was educated at a convent school and at Université Laval. It was at Laval that she met Jeanne Lapointe and Father Georges Lévesque, who encouraged her to write and, in 1959, to publish her first...
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- Nancy HustonNancy HustonNancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.-Biography:...
, - Roger Magini,
- Jocelyne Saucier,
- Lise Vaillancourt,
Poetry
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- Serge Patrice
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- José Acquelin,
- Jean Charlebois,
- Herménégilde ChiassonHerménégilde Chiasson-External links:* entry in *...
, - Louise Cotnoir,
Drama
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- Normand Chaurette,
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- Suzanne Lebeau,
- Wajdi MouawadWajdi MouawadWajdi Mouawad, OC is a Canadian writer, actor and director born in Lebanon in 1968. After living in France for a short time, he moved to Quebec in 1983.- Biography :He obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991....
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Non-Fiction
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- Michel Freitag,
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- Gérard BouchardGérard BouchardGérard Bouchard is a historian, sociologist and writer from Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval in 1968 and later obtained his PhD degree in history from the University...
, - Gilles Lapointe,
- Benoît Melançon,
- Denis VaugeoisDenis VaugeoisDenis Vaugeois is a renowned French-speaking author, publisher and historian from Quebec, Canada. He also served as a Member of the National Assembly from 1976 to 1985.-Early life and career:...
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Children's Literature - Text
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- Gilles Tibo,
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- Sylvie Desrosiers,
- Jacinthe Gaulin,
- Daniel Sernine,
- Hélène Vachon,
Children's Literature - Illustration
The jury decided not to award the Prize in this category in 1996. The jury felt that none of the works submitted this year met the standards of excellence of the Governor General's Literary Awards.
Translation - from English to French
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- Christiane Teasdale,
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- Pierre DesRuisseauxPierre DesRuisseauxPierre DesRuisseaux is a Canadian poet. He was named the fourth Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate on April 28, 2009....
, - Hélène Le Beau,