1996 Governor General's Awards

The 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented on November 13, 1996.[1]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
Non-fiction Blue ribbon John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
Poetry Blue ribbon E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
Drama Blue ribbon Colleen Wagner, The Monument
  • Wendy Lill, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
  • John Mighton, The Little Years
  • Michael O'Brien, Mad Boy Chronicle
  • Betty Quan, Mother Tongue
Children's literature Blue ribbon Paul Yee, Ghost Train
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift
  • Alan Daniel and Lea Daniel, Sody Salleratus
  • Wang Kui, The Wise Washerman – A Folktale from Burma
  • Johnny Wales, Gruntle Piggle Takes Off
  • Werner Zimmermann, Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe!
French to English translation Blue ribbon Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (Daniel Danis, Cendres de cailloux)

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Michel Freitag, Le Naufrage de l'université – Et autres essais d'épistémologie politique
  • Gérard Bouchard, Quelques arpents d'Amérique – Population, économie, famille au Saguenay 1838–1971
  • Gilles Lapointe, L'Envol des signes – Borduas et ses lettres
  • Benoît Melançon, Diderot épistolier – Contribution à une poétique de la lettre familière au XVIIIe siècle
  • Denis Vaugeois, La Fin des alliances franco-indiennes – Enquête sur un sauf-conduit de 1760 devenu un traité en 1990
Poetry Blue ribbon Serge Patrice Thibodeau Le Quatuor de l'errance / La Traversée du désert
Drama Blue ribbon Normand Chaurette, Le Passage de l'Indiana
Children's literature Blue ribbon Gilles Tibo, Noémie – Le Secret de Madame Lumbago
Children's illustration No award presented
English to French translation Blue ribbon Christiane Teasdale, Systèmes de survie – Dialogue sur les fondements moraux du commerce et de la politique
  • Pierre DesRuisseaux, Contre-taille – Poèmes choisis de vingt-cinq auteurs canadiens-anglais
  • Hélène Le Beau, Les Dangers de la pensée critique – Trois nouvelles

References

  1. ^ Philip Marchand, "Vanderhaeghe wins second fiction prize". Toronto Star, November 13, 1996.
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