1999 Governor General's Awards
Encyclopedia
The winners of the 1999 Canadian
Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux
, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts
, at a press conference held on November 16 at the National Library of Canada. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.
Canada
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Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux
Jean-Louis Roux
Jean-Louis Roux, CC, CQ is a noted entertainer and playwright, senator, and briefly the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Canada.-Biography:...
, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of 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...
, at a press conference held on November 16 at the National Library of Canada. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.
Fiction
- Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and AfterElizabeth and AfterElizabeth and After is a novel by Matt Cohen, first published in 1999 by Knopf Canada. His final novel, it won the Governor General's Award for English language fiction just a few weeks before Cohen's death.-Plot summary:...
- Neil BissoondathNeil BissoondathNeil Devindra Bissoondath is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. He is a noted writer of fiction, and also an outspoken critic of Canada's system of multiculturalism. He is the nephew of authors V.S. Naipaul and Shiva Naipaul.-Biography:Bissoondath attended St. Mary's College in...
, The Worlds Within Her - Anne FlemingAnne Fleming (writer)Anne Fleming is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she attended the University of Waterloo, first enrolling in a geography program then moving to English studies. In 1991, she moved to British Columbia. She teaches at the University of British Columbia Okanagan campus in Kelowna...
, Pool-hopping and Other Stories - Elyse GascoElyse GascoElyse Gasco, MA is a Canadian fiction writer.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Gasco studied Creative Writing first at Concordia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1988, then at New York University to earn a Master of Arts degree....
, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? - Keith MaillardKeith MaillardKeith Maillard is a fiction author and poet.Maillard has lived in various places in the United States and Canada.He attended West Virginia University and was host of a Boston campus radio programme.He moved to Canada in 1970, attaining citizenship in 1976.In the early 1970s, Maillard worked as a...
, Gloria
Poetry
- Jan ZwickyJan ZwickyJan Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet, essayist, and musician.She received her B.A. from the University of Calgary and earned her PhD at the University of Toronto in 1981 where her studies focussed on the philosophy of logic and science...
, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth - Lynn Davies, The Bridge that Carries the Road
- Susan GoyetteSusan GoyetteSusan Goyette is a Canadian poet and novelist.Born in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Goyette grew up in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, on Montreal's south shore....
, The True Names of Birds - Richard HarrisonRichard Harrison (poet)Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet and essayist, and winner of the City of Calgary Book Prize.His fourth book of poetry, Big Breath of a Wish , was nominated for a Governor General's Award....
, Big Breath of a Wish - Terence Young, The Island in Winter
Drama
- Michael HealeyMichael HealeyMichael Healey is a Canadian playwright and actor. He graduated from the acting programme at Toronto's Ryerson Theatre School in 1985. His acting credits include the plays of Jason Sherman and George F...
, The Drawer Boy - 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...
, Corker - Daniel MacIvorDaniel MacIvorDaniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
, Marion Bridge - Colleen Murphy, Beating Heart Cadaver
- Theresa Tova, Still the Night
Non-fiction
- Marq de VilliersMarq de VilliersMarq de Villiers, CM is an award-winning Canadian writer and journalist. He now chiefly writes non-fiction books on scientific topics. In the past he also worked as a magazine editor and foreign correspondent.-Biography:...
, Water - Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder
- 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...
, William Osler - Wayson ChoyWayson ChoyWayson Choy, CM is a Canadian writer.-Early life:Choy was born in Vancouver in 1939. A Chinese Canadian, he spent his childhood in the city's Chinatown...
, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown ChildhoodPaper Shadows: A Chinatown ChildhoodPaper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood is a memoir by Wayson Choy. It was first published in 1999 by Viking Canada.The book recounts Choy's experiences growing up in Vancouver's Chinatown in the 1940s and 1950s.... - Wayne JohnstonWayne Johnston (author)Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting.-Biography:...
, Baltimore's Mansion - A Memoir
Children's literature (text)
- Rachna GilmoreRachna GilmoreRachna Gilmore is an award-winning children's writer. Her picture book A Screaming Kind of Day won the 1999 Governor General's Award for Children's Literature.- Background :...
, A Screaming Kind of Day - Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange
- Graham McNamee, Hate You
- W.D. Valgardson, The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
- Frieda Wishinsky, Each One Special
Children's literature (illustration)
- Gary Clement, The Great Poochini
- Rose Cowles, I Know an Old Laddie
- Zhong-Yang Huang, Dragon New Year
- Ludmila Zeman, Sindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
- 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....
, Brave Highland Heart
French-to-English translation
- 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...
, Gabrielle Roy: A Life - David Homel, Olivo Oliva
- 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 Mark of the AngelThe Mark of the AngelThe Mark of the Angel is a 1998 novel by Canadian writer Nancy Huston. It was originally published in French, appearing under the title L'Empreinte de l'Ange. Both editions were nominated in Canada for a Governor General's Award in 1998 and 1999 respectively... - Lazer LederhendlerLazer LederhendlerLazer Lederhendler is a Canadian literary translator and academic. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, he won the award in 2008 for his translation of Nicolas Dickner's novel Nikolski...
, The Sparrow has Cut the Day in Half - Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift
Fiction
- Lise TremblayLise TremblayLise Tremblay is a French Canadian novelist.Tremblay was born in Chicoutimi, Quebec. Her first awards were presented at the Saguenay-Lac. St Jean book festival for her 1990 debut novel L'hiver de pluie...
, La Danse juive - Hugues Corriveau, Le Ramasseur de souffle
- Jacques Marchand, Les Vents dominants
- Carole Massé, L'Ennemi
- Gaétan SoucyGaétan SoucyGaétan Soucy is a Canadian novelist and professor.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Soucy studied physics at Université de Montréal, completed a Master's degree in philosophy, and studied Japanese language and literature at McGill University....
, La Petite Fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
Poetry
- Herménégilde ChiassonHerménégilde Chiasson-External links:* entry in *...
, Conversations - Claude Beausoleil, Le Chant du voyageur
- 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...
, Musée de l'os et de l'eau - Carole David, La Maison d'Ophélie
- Pierre Ouellet, Dieu sait quoi
Drama
- Jean-Marc DalpéJean-Marc DalpéJean Marc Dalpé is a Canadian playwright and poet. He is one of the most important figures in Franco-Ontarian literature....
, Il n'y a que l'amour - Carole Fréchette, Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse
- René GingrasRené GingrasRené Gingras was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was an electrician, businessman and administrator by career.He was elected in the Quebec riding of Abitibi in the 1980 federal election...
, D'Avila - Michel TremblayMichel TremblayMichel Tremblay, CQ is a Canadian novelist and playwright.Tremblay grew up in the Plateau Mont-Royal, a French-speaking neighbourhood of Montreal, at the time of his birth a neighbourhood with a working-class character and joual dialect, something that would heavily influence his work...
, Encore une fois, si vous permettez
Non-fiction
- Pierre PerraultPierre PerraultPierre Perrault was a Québécois documentary film director. He directed 20 films between 1963 and 1996. He was one of the most important filmmakers in Canada although largely unknown outside of Québec...
, Le Mal du Nord - Anne Élaine Cliche, Dire le livre
- Jean-Claude Dubé, Le Chevalier de Montmagny: Premier gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France
- François-Marc Gagnon, Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois 1941-1954
- Daniel Jacques, Nationalité et Modernité
Children's literature (text)
- Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas...
- Agathe Génois, Adieu, vieux lézard!
- Andrée-Anne Gratton, Le Message du biscuit chinois
- Sylvie Nicolas, Célestine Motamo
- Raymond Plante, Marilou Polaire et l'iguane des neiges
Children's literature (illustration)
- Stéphane Jorish, Charlotte et l'île du destin
- Nicole Lafond, Contes pour enfants
- Michèle Lemieux, Nuit d'orage
- Luc Melanson, La Petite Kim
- Pierre Pratt, La Vie exemplaire de Martha et Paul
English-to-French translation
- Jacques BraultJacques BraultJacques Brault is a French Canadian poet and translator who currently lives in Cowansville, Quebec, Canada. He was born to a poor family, but received an excellent education at the Université de Montréal and at the Sorbonne in Paris...
, Transfiguration - Charlotte Melançon, Réflexions d'un frère siamois
- Marie José Thériault, Ours