1995 Governor General's Awards

The 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards were presented by Roméo LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada on November 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000 and a copy of their books specially bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvard.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Greg Hollingshead, The Roaring Girl

Other Finalists:

• Diana Atkinson, Highways and Dancehalls
• Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman
• Julie Keith, The Jaguar Temple
• Roo Borson, Night Walk
• Di Brandt, Jerusalem, Beloved
• Don Domanski, Stations of the Left Hand
• Steven Heighton, The Ecstasy of Skeptics

Drama

Winner:

• Deborah Kimmett, Miracle Mother
• Joan MacLeod, The Hope Slide - Little Sister
• Linda McQuaig, Shooting the Hippo
• Beth Goobie, Mission Impossible
• Hazel Hutchins, Tess
• Welwyn Wilton Katz, Out of the Dark
• Warabé Aska, Aska's Sea Creatures
• Gary Clement, Just Stay Put
• Paul Leduc Browne and Dream Michelle Weinroth, Trudeau and the End of a Canadian
• Sheila Fischman, No Song, But Silence
• Wayne Grady, Black Squirrel
• Ying Chen, L'Ingratitude
• Louis Hamelin, Betsi Larousse ou l'Ineffable
• Louis Jolicoeur, Saisir l'absence
• Louise Desjardins, La 2e Avenue précédé de Petite sensation, La minutie de l'araignée, Le marché de l'amour
• Jocelyne Felx, La Pierre et les Heures
• Gérald Gaudet, La Fiction de l'âme
• Jean Marc Dalpé, Lucky Lady
• Suzanne Lebeau, Contes d'enfants réels
• Hélène-Andrée Bizier, Le Noir et le Rouge
• Jean Boivin, La Classe de Messiaen
• Marcel Fournier, Marcel Mauss
• Jean-Pierre Davidts, Contes du chat gris
• Christiane Duchesne, Berthold et Lucrèce
• Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, Sho et les dragons d'eau
• Marie-Louise Gay, Berthold et Lucrèce
• Stéphane Jorisch, Le Baiser maléfique
• Pierre Pratt, La Bottine magique de Pipo
• Michèle Causse, Loyale à la chasse
• Anne Malena, La Maraude
• Marie José Thériault, À l'aube de lendemains précaires

Other Governor General's Awards:

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