1988 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1988 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners and nominees were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
English Language
Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
- Joan Clark, The Victory of Geraldine Gull
- Mark Frutkin, Atmospheres Apollinaire
- Erin Mouré, Furious
Other Finalists:
Non-Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Martha Brooks, Paradise Café and Other Stories
- Brian Doyle, Easy Avenue
- Marie-Louise Gay, Angel and the Polar Bear
- Jillian Hulme Gilliland, How the Devil Got His Cat
- Dayal Kaur Khalsa, Sleepers
- Arnold Bennett, The History of the Labour Movement in Quebec
- Noël Audet, L'Ombre de l'épervier
- Normand Chaurette, Scènes d'enfants
- François Charron, Le Monde comme obstacle
- Louise Dupré, Bonheur
- Normand Canac-Marquis, Le Syndrome de Cézanne
- Marie-Francine Hébert, Oui ou non
- Marco Micone, Déjà l'agonie
- Jacques Desautels, Dieux et Mythes de la Grèce ancienne
- Lucien Parizeau, Périples autour d'un langage
- Denis Côté, Les prisonniers du zoo
- Cécile Gagnon, Châteaux de sable
- Sylvie Daigle, Le Mot de passe
- Pierre Pratt, Peut-il, peut-elle?
- Jean Lévesque and Michèle Venet, Le Rêve d'une génération
- Michel Saint-Germain, Flagrant Délice
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