1997 Governor General's Awards
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The winners of the 1997 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced on November 18 by Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts
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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...
. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.
Fiction
Winner:- Jane UrquhartJane UrquhartJane Urquhart, OC is a Canadian novelist and poet.-Biography:Born 200 miles north of Thunder Bay, Ontario in Little Longlac , Ontario, Jane Urquhart is the third of three children and the only daughter of Marian and Walter Carter, a prospector and mining engineer...
, The Underpainter
Other Finalists:
- Sandra BirdsellSandra BirdsellSandra Louise Birdsell, CM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer of Métis and Mennonite heritage....
, The Two-Headed Calf - Matt Cohen, Last Seen
- Elizabeth HayElizabeth Hay (novelist)Elizabeth Grace Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her novel A Student of Weather was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award...
, Small Change - Eric McCormack, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Poetry
Winner:- Dionne BrandDionne BrandDionne Brand is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009.-Biography:...
, Land to Light On
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- Marilyn BoweringMarilyn BoweringMarilyn Bowering is a Canadian poet, novelist and playwright. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, and currently lives in Sooke, British Columbia...
, Autobiography - Patrick FriesenPatrick FriesenPatrick Frank Friesen is a Canadian author. He has written many works, from poetry to stage plays. He began his works in 1970, writing books of poetry. This Canadian poet, who was born in Steinbach, Manitoba, studied at the University of Manitoba. While there, he received a Bachelor of Arts ...
, A Broken Bowl - Carole Glasser Langille, In Cannon Cave
- Don McKayDon McKayDon McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...
, Apparatus
Drama
Winner:- Ian RossIan Ross (playwright)Ian Ross the son of Grace and Raymond Ross; is a Métis Canadian playwright. Ross earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in film and a minor in theatre from the University of Manitoba in 1992...
, fareWel
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- Maureen HunterMaureen HunterMaureen Hunter is a Canadian playwright who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.She was born in Indian Head, Saskatchewan and graduated from the University of Saskatchewan. Transit of Venus was performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company and recorded by the BBC...
, Atlantis - Lee MacDougall, High Life
- Jason ShermanJason ShermanJason Sherman is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produced what, a literary magazine that he edited from 1985 to 1990...
, Reading Hebron - 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...
, Sled
Non-fiction
Winner:- Rachel ManleyRachel ManleyRachel Manley is a Jamaican writer in verse and prose, born in Cornwall, raised in Jamaica and currently residing in Canada. She is a daughter of former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley. She edited Edna Manley's diaries which were published in 1989...
, Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood
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- Wade DavisWade DavisEdmund Wade Davis is a Canadian anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author and photographer whose work has focused on worldwide indigenous cultures, especially in North and South America and particularly involving the traditional uses and beliefs associated with psychoactive plants...
, One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest - Catherine Dunphy, Morgentaler: A Difficult Hero
- Terry GlavinTerry GlavinTerry Glavin is a Canadian author and journalist.Born in the United Kingdom to Irish parents, he emigrated to Canada in 1957. Glavin has worked as a journalist and columnist for The Daily Columbian, The Vancouver Sun, The Globe and Mail, and The Georgia Straight...
, This Ragged Place - Travels Across the Landscape - Blair Stonechild and Bill WaiserBill WaiserWilliam Andrew "Bill" Waiser,B.A., M.A., Ph.D. , is a Canadian author specializing in western and northern Canadian history.-Career:...
, Loyal till Death - Indians and the North-West Rebellion
Children's Literature - Text
Winner:- 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...
, Awake and Dreaming
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- Cheryl Foggo, One Thing That's True
- James HeneghanJames HeneghanJames Heneghan is a British Canadian author. Heneghan grew up Liverpool, England, and currently lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. He earned Canadian citizenship in 1963...
, Wish Me Luck - Teddy Jam, The Fishing Summer
- Barbara Nichol, Dippers
Children's Literature - Illustrations
Winner:- Barbara Reid, The Party
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- Blair Drawson, Flying Dimitri
- Marie-Louise GayMarie-Louise GayMarie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children’s author and illustrator.- Background :Born in Quebec City, as a child she lived in Montreal and Vancouver. Gay has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple...
, Rumpelstiltskin - Robin Muller, The Angel Tree
- Ludmila Zeman, The First Red Maple Leaf
Translation - French to English
Winner:- Howard Scott, The Euguelion
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- Jane Brierley, Canadians of Old
- Patricia ClaxtonPatricia ClaxtonPatricia Claxton is an award-winning Canadian translator, primarily of Quebec literature.A native of Kingston, Ontario, Patricia Claxton spent most of her childhood in India. Upon returning to Canada, she has made Montreal, Quebec's largest city, and Canada's second-largest, her permanent residence...
, Baroque at Dawn - David Homel, A Drifting Year
- 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:...
, The Goldberg Variations
Fiction
Winner:- Aude, Cet imperceptible mouvement
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- Bernard Assiniwi, La Saga des Béothuks
- 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...
, Quittes et Doubles - Scènes de réciprocité - 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:...
, La Vie entière - Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde - Pierre Ouellet, Légende dorée
Poetry
Winner:- Pierre NepveuPierre NepveuPierre Nepveu is a famous French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. He specializes in Quebec modern poetry, in particular that of Gaston Miron...
, Romans-fleuves
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- Nicole BrossardNicole BrossardNicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
, Vertige de l'avant-scène - Serge Legagneur, Poèmes choisis, 1961-1997
- Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves
- Hélène Monette, Plaisirs et Paysages kitsch
Drama
Winner:- Yvan Bienvenue, Dits et Inédits
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- Jasmine Dubé, La Bonne Femme
- Marie-Line Laplante, Une tache sur la lune
- Robert Marinier, L'Insomnie
- Larry Tremblay, Ogre - Cornemuse
Non-Fiction
Winner:- Roland Viau, Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes - Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne
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- Fernand DumontFernand DumontFernand Dumont was a québécois sociologist, philosopher, theologian and poet.Dumont was born in Montmorency, Quebec.Dumont died in Quebec.-External links:*...
, Une foi partagée - Yolande Geadah, Femmes voilées, intégrismes démasqués
- Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
- François Ricard, Gabrielle Roy - Une vie
Children's Literature - Text
Winner:- Michel NoëlMichel NoëlMichel Noël, born Jean-Noel Croteau was a Quebec actor most famous for his character of Capitaine Bonhomme.He appeared in many TV series, and also recorded and sold records.- Filmography :...
, Pien
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- Dominique Demers, Maïna, tomes 1 et 2
- Agathe Génois, Sarah, je suis là!
- Jacques GodboutJacques GodboutJacques Godbout, CQ is a Canadian novelist, essayist, children's writer, journalist, filmmaker and poet. By his own admission a bit of a dabbler , Godbout has become one of the most important writers of his generation, with a major influence on post-1960 Quebec intellectual life.-Biography:Born in...
, Une leçon de chasse - Maryse Pelletier, Une vie en éclats
Children's Literature - Illustrations
Winner:- Stéphane Poulin, Poil de serpent, dent d'araignée
Other Finalists:
- Leanne Franson, L'Ourson qui voulait une Juliette
- Stéphane Jorisch, Casse-Noisette
- Gilles Tibo, Simon et le petit cirque
Translation - English to French
Winner:- Marie José Thériault, Arracher les montagnes
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- François Barcelo, La Face cachée des pierres
- Nicole Côté, Verre de tempête
- Pierrot Lambert, L'Insight: Étude de la compréhension humaine