2005 Governor General's Awards
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The nominees for the 2005 Governor General's Award
s for Literary Merit were announced on October 17. Winning titles were announced on November 16. The winners received a cheque for $15,000 and a specially crafted copy of their book bound by master bookbinder
Lise Dubois.
Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...
s for Literary Merit were announced on October 17. Winning titles were announced on November 16. The winners received a cheque for $15,000 and a specially crafted copy of their book bound by master bookbinder
Bookbinding
Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block.-Origins of the book:...
Lise Dubois.
Fiction
- David GilmourDavid Gilmour (writer)David Gilmour is a Canadian novelist and television journalist.He became managing editor of the Toronto International Film Festival in 1980, a post he held for four years. In 1986, he joined CBC Television as a film critic for The Journal, eventually becoming host of the program's Friday night...
, A Perfect Night to Go to ChinaA Perfect Night to Go to ChinaA Perfect Night to Go to China is a novel by David Gilmour, published in 2005. It won the 2005 Governor General's Award for English language fiction.... - Joseph BoydenJoseph BoydenJoseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His first novel, Three Day Road won the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize...
, Three Day RoadThree Day RoadThree Day Road is the first novel from Canadian writer Joseph Boyden. Joseph’s maternal grandfather, as well as an uncle on his father’s side, served as soldiers during the First World War, and Boyden draws upon a wealth of family narratives... - Golda FriedGolda FriedGolda Fried is an Canadian/American poet, short story writer, novelist and teacher.Raised in Toronto, Canada and later graduated from York Mills High School, she received her undergraduate degree from McGill University in Film and Communications and her masters in English and Creative Writing...
, Nellcott is My Darling - Charlotte Gill, Ladykiller
- Kathy PageKathy PageKathy Page is a British-born writer now living in Canada. She has published seven novels since 1986. The Story of My Face, published in 2002, was long listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction in the U.K. Alphabet, published in 2005, was nominated for the Governor General's Literary Award in Canada...
, Alphabet
Poetry
- Anne ComptonAnne Compton-Biography:Compton was born and raised in the farming community of Bangor, Prince Edward Island. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Prince Edward Island, her Masters from York University and finally her PhD from the University of New Brunswick. Dr...
, Processional - Barry DempsterBarry DempsterBarry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet and novelist.Dempster was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.Two of his collections, Fables For Isolated Men and The Burning Alphabet , were nominated for Governor General's Awards...
, The Burning Alphabet - 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...
, Little Theatres - W. H. NewW. H. NewWilliam Herbert New, OC, FRSC is a Canadian poet and literary critic. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, he was educated at the University of British Columbia and the University of Leeds. He taught English literature at the former from 1965 to 2003...
, Underwood Log - Olive SeniorOlive SeniorOlive Marjorie Senior is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada.She went to Montego Bay High School For Girls, then at age 19 joined the staff of the Jamaica Gleaner in Kingston. She later won a scholarship to study journalism in Cardiff, Wales, and then at Carleton...
, Over the Roofs of the World
Drama
- 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...
, Half Life - Marjorie Chan, China Doll
- Don Druick, Through the Eyes
- 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....
, Cul-de-sac - Richard Sanger, Two Words for Snow
Non-fiction
- John VaillantJohn VaillantJohn Vaillant is a non-fiction author and journalist who was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has lived in Vancouver for the past thirteen years. His first book, The Golden Spruce, won the 2005 Governor General's Award for Non-Fiction and the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize...
, The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed - Ted BishopTed BishopTed Bishop is a Canadian author and academic. A professor of English literature and film studies at the University of Alberta, his first non-academic publication was Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books, a memoir which was a Canadian bestseller in 2005 and a finalist for the 2005...
, Riding with Rilke: Reflections on Motorcycles and Books - Michael MitchellMichael MitchellMichael Mitchell is an indigenous former Australian rules footballer for the Claremont Football Club in the WAFL and the Richmond Football Club in the VFL/AFL.Mitchell was originally from Carnarvon, Western Australia .-Claremont:...
, The Molly Fire - Edward Shorter, Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire
- Jessica WarnerJessica WarnerJessica Warner is an American historian, specializing in the social history of Great Britain in the early modern age. Her books include Craze: Gin and Debauchery in an Age of Reason and John the Painter: Terrorist of the American Revolution. The latter book has won praise from fellow historians...
, The Incendiary: The Misadventures of John the Painter, First Modern Terrorist
Children's literature (text)
- Pamela PorterPamela PorterPamela Porter is an American novelist of children's literature and poetry. She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and has also lived in Texas, Louisiana, Washington and Montana. She immigrated to Canada with her husband, the fourth generation of a Saskatchewan farm family and now resides in...
, The Crazy Man - Francis ChalifourFrancis Chalifour- Writing :His first published work was the French novel Zoom Papaye, and his second, After, was nominated for the Governor General's Award 2005. He wrote the book called Le fils du pendu....
, After - Barbara NickelBarbara NickelBarbara Kathleen Nickel is a Canadian poet.-Life:She was raised in Rosthern, Saskatchewan. She graduated from Goshen College, and University of British Columbia with an M.F.A...
, Hannah Waters and the Daughter of Johann Sebastian Bach - Gail Nyoka, Mella and the N'angaN'angaAmong the Shona people of Zimbabwe, a n'anga is a traditional healer who uses a combination of herbs, medical/religious advice and spiritual guidance to heal people...
: An African Tale - Shyam SelvaduraiShyam SelvaduraiShyam Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan Canadian novelist who wrote Funny Boy , which won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and Cinnamon Gardens...
, Swimming in the Monsoon Sea
Children's literature (illustration)
- Rob GonsalvesRob GonsalvesRob Gonsalves is a Canadian painter of magic realism with a unique perspective and style. He produces original works, limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books....
, Imagine a Day (Sarah L. Thomson) - Kyrsten Brooker, City Angel (Eileen Spinelli)
- Wallace EdwardsWallace EdwardsWallace Edwards is a Canadian children's illustrator who won the 2002 Governor General's Award for his book Alphabeasts. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art....
, Mixed Beasts (Kenyon Cox) - Murray Kimber, The Highwayman (Alfred Noyes)
- Rajka Kupesic, Maria ChapdelaineMaria ChapdelaineMaria Chapdelaine is a novel written in 1913 by the French writer Louis Hémon, who was then residing in Quebec.-Adaptations:The novel has had three film adaptations, two French and one Québécois: in 1934, by Julien Duvivier, with Madeleine Renaud , and Jean Gabin , partly filmed in Péribonka; in...
(Louis HémonLouis HémonLouis Hémon , was a francophone writer best known for his novel Maria Chapdelaine.- Biography :He was born in Brest, France. In Paris, where he resided with his family, he was enrolled in the Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand secondary schools...
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French-to-English translation
- 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...
, Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (Thierry Hentsch, Raconter et mourir : aux sources narratives de l’imaginaire occidental) - Jane Brierley, America: The Lewis and Clark Expedition and the Dawn of a New Power (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:...
, America, 1803-1853 : l’expédition de Lewis & Clark et la naissance d’une nouvelle puissance) - Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon (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...
, Hier) - 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...
, Return from Africa (Francine D'Amour, Le Retour d’Afrique) - Fred A. Reed and David Homel, All that Glitters (Martine Desjardins, L'Élu du hasard)
Fiction
- Aki ShimazakiAki ShimazakiAki Shimazaki is a Canadian novelist and translator. She moved to Canada in 1981, living in Vancouver and Toronto. She has lived in Montreal, where she teaches Japanese and publishes her novels in French, since 1991....
, Hotaru - 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...
, Augustino et le chœur de la destruction - Nicolas DicknerNicolas DicknerNicolas Dickner is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his 2005 novel Nikolski, which has won numerous literary awards in Canada both in its original French and translated English editions.He currently lives in Montreal, where he is a literary columnist for the...
, NikolskiNikolski (novel)Nikolski is an award-winning novel by Canadian writer Nicolas Dickner. Originally published in 2005 in French, an English edition translated by Lazer Lederhendler was published in 2008.... - Christiane Frenette, Après la nuit rouge
- Guy Lalancette, Un amour empoulaillé
Poetry
- Jean-Marc Desgent, Vingtièmes siècles
- Marc André Brouillette, M'accompagne
- François Dumont, Brisures
- Danielle Fournier, Il n’y a rien d’intact dans ma chair
- Fernand Ouellette, L’Inoubliable: Chronique I
Drama
- Geneviève Billette, Le Pays des genoux
- Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Pour ceux qui croient que la Terre est ronde
- François Godin, Louisiane Nord
- Marie-Christine Lê-Huu, Jouliks
Non-fiction
- Michel BockMichel BockMichel Bock is a Canadian historian, who specializes in the history of Franco-Ontarian communities and cultures. His book Quand la nation débordait les frontières: les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx was the winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award in the French language...
, Quand la nation débordait les frontières: les minorités françaises dans la pensée de Lionel Groulx - Paul Bleteau and Mario Poirier, Le vagabond stoïque: Louis Hémon
- Gilles Dostaler, Keynes et ses combats
- Éric Méchoulan, Le livre avalé: de la littérature entre mémoire et culture (XVIe – XVIIIe siècle)
- Sébastien Vincent, Laissés dans l’ombre: les Québécois engagés volontaires de 39-45 (ou quatorze Québécois racontent leur participation volontaire à la Seconde Guerre mondiale)
Children's literature (text)
- Camille Bouchard, Le Ricanement des hyènes
- Alain M. Bergeron, Les Tempêtes ou Les mémoires d’un Beatle raté
- Jean-Pierre Davidts, Le Baiser de la sangsue
- Danielle Marcotte, Les sabots rouges
- Sylvain Meunier, L’homme à la bicyclette
Children's literature (illustration)
- Isabelle Arsenault, Le cœur de monsieur Gauguin (Marie-Danielle Croteau)
- Pascale Constantin, La vie comptée de Raoul Lecompte (Gilles Tibo)
- Luc Melanson, Les compositeurs (Claudio Ricignuolo)
- Stéphane Poulin, Un chant de Noël (Lucie Papineau)
- Pierre Pratt, Le jour où Zoé zozota (Pierre Pratt)
English-to-French translation
- Rachel Martinez, Glenn Gould: une vie (Kevin BazzanaKevin BazzanaKevin Bazzana is a Canadian music historian and biographer, best known for his works on the influential Canadian pianist Glenn Gould.A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, Bazzana currently lives in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia...
, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould) - Benoit Léger, Miracles en série (Carol ShieldsCarol ShieldsCarol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.-Biography:Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois...
, Various Miracles) - Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Drôle de tendresse (Miriam ToewsMiriam ToewsMiriam Toews is a Canadian writer of Mennonite descent. She grew up in Steinbach, Manitoba and has lived in Montreal and London, before settling in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She moved to Toronto in 2009....
, A Complicated KindnessA Complicated KindnessA Complicated Kindness is a novel by Canadian author Miriam Toews.Originally published in 2004 by Knopf Canada, it was the winner of the Governor General's Award for English Fiction, and was nominated for the Giller Prize. It spent over a year on the Canadian bestseller lists...
) - Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, La fille du Kamikaze (Kerri SakamotoKerri SakamotoKerri Sakamoto is a Canadian novelist. Her novels commonly deal with the experience of Japanese Canadians.Sakamoto's debut novel, The Electrical Field , won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. It also won the Canada-Japan Literary Award and was a finalist for a Governor General’s...
, One Hundred Million Hearts) - Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le Vol du corbeau (Ann-Marie MacDonaldAnn-Marie MacDonaldAnn-Marie MacDonald is a Canadian playwright, novelist, actor and broadcast journalist who lives in Toronto, Ontario. The daughter of a member of Canada's military, she was born at an air force base near Baden-Baden, West Germany....
, The Way the Crow FliesThe Way the Crow FliesThe Way the Crow Flies is a novel by Canadian writer Ann-Marie MacDonald. It was first published by Knopf Canada in 2003.The plot of the novel revolves around a fictionalized version of the Steven Truscott case and is set for the most part at a real Royal Canadian Air Force station: RCAF Station...
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