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1998 Governor General's Awards

The winners of the 1998 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts on November 17th in Ottawa. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Lynn Coady, Strange Heaven
• Barbara Gowdy, White Bone
• Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
• Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems

Other Finalists:

• Louise Bernice Halfe, Blue Marrow
• Michael Ondaatje, Handwriting
• Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet

Other Finalists:

• Bruce McManus, Selkirk Avenue
• Richard Sanger, Not Spain
• Sandra Shamas, Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances
• David Adams Richards, Lines on the Water - A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi

Other Finalists:

• Wayne Grady, The Quiet Limit of the World - A Journey to the North Pole to Investigate Global Warming
• Charlotte Gray, Mrs. King - The Life and Times of Isabel Mackenzie King
• Judy Schultz, Mamie's Children - Three Generations of Prairie Women
• Rudy Wiebe and Gayle Friesen, Janey's Girl
• Julie Johnston, The Only Outcast
• Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring
• Victor Bosson, The Fox's Kettle
• Harvey Chan, Music for the Tsar of the Sea
• Zhong-Yang Huang, The Great Race
• Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me

Other Finalists:

• Arnold Bennett, Voltaire's Man in America
• David Homel, The Second Fiddle
• Marie-Célie Agnant, Le Silence comme le sang
• Madeleine Gagnon, Le Deuil du soleil
• Nancy Huston, L'Empreinte de l'ange
• Hugues Corriveau, Le Livre du frère
• Hélène Dorion, Les Murs de la grotte
• Christine Richard, L'Eau des oiseaux
• Serge Boucher, Motel Hélène
• Olivier Choinière, Le Bain des raines
• Carole Fréchette, La Peau d'Élisa
• Guy Dessureault, Lettre de Chine
• Daniel Mativat, Terreur sur la Windigo
• Danielle Rochette, La Fugue d'Antoine
• Stéphane Poulin, Petit zizi
• Alain Reno, Un tartare pour le bonhomme Sept Heures
• Paule Noyart, Leonard Cohen - Le Canadien errant
• Hélène Rioux, Self

Other Governor General's Awards:

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