1997 Governor General's Awards
The winners of the 1997 Governor General's Literary Awards was announced on November 18th by Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.
English Language
Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Sandra Birdsell, The Two-Headed Calf
- Matt Cohen, Last Seen
- Elizabeth Hay, Small Change
- Eric McCormack, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women
Poetry
Winner:
Other Finalists:
Drama
Winner:
- Maureen Hunter, Atlantis
- Lee MacDougall, High Life
- Jason Sherman, Reading Hebron
- Terry Glavin, This Ragged Place - Travels Across the Landscape
- Blair Stonechild and Cheryl Foggo, One Thing That's True
- James Heneghan, Wish Me Luck
- Teddy Jam, The Fishing Summer
- Blair Drawson, Flying Dimitri
- Marie-Louise Gay, Rumpelstiltskin
- Robin Muller, The Angel Tree
- Jane Brierley, Canadians of Old
- Patricia Claxton, Baroque at Dawn
- David Homel, A Drifting Year
- Nancy Huston, The Goldberg Variations
French Language
Fiction
Winner:
- Bernard Assiniwi, La Saga des Béothuks
- Lise Bissonnette, Quittes et Doubles - Scènes de réciprocité
- Pierre Morency, La Vie entière - Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde
- Nicole Brossard, Vertige de l'avant-scène
- Serge Legagneur, Poèmes choisis, 1961-1997
- Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves
- Jasmine Dubé, La Bonne Femme
- Marie-Line Laplante, Une tache sur la lune
- Robert Marinier, L'Insomnie
- Fernand Dumont, Une foi partagée
- Yolande Geadah, Femmes voilées, intégrismes démasqués
- Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
- Dominique Demers, Maïna, tomes 1 et 2
- Agathe Génois, Sarah, je suis là!
- Jacques Godbout, Une leçon de chasse
- Leanne Franson, L'Ourson qui voulait une Juliette
- Stéphane Jorisch, Casse-Noisette
- François Barcelo, La Face cachée des pierres
- Nicole Côté, Verre de tempête
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