1992 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Table of contents

1 English Language

1.1 Fiction
1.2 Poetry
1.3 Drama
1.4 Non-Fiction
1.5 Children's Literature - Text
1.6 Children's Literature - Illustration
1.7 Translation (from French to English)

2 French Language

2.8 Fiction
2.9 Poetry
2.10 Drama
2.11 Non-Fiction
2.12 Children's Literature - Text
2.13 Children's Literature - Illustration
2.14 Translation (from English to French)

3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Other Finalists:

Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite
Archie Crail, The Bonus Deal
John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
Sheila Watson, Deep Hollow Creek

Poetry

Winner:

Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk

Other Finalists:

Evelyn Lau, Oedipal Dreams
Laura Lush, Hometown
Steve McCaffery, Theory of Sediment
Kathleen McCracken, Blue Light, Bay and College

Drama

Winner:

John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night

Other Finalists:

Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures
Dave Carley, Writing With Our Feet
Judith Thompson, Lion in the Streets
Dianne Warren, Serpent in the Night Sky

Non-Fiction

Winner:

Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm

Other Finalists:

Michael Bliss, Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal
Ken Cuthbertson, Inside: The Biography of John Gunther
Michael R. Marrus, Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes

Other Finalists:

Margaret Buffie, My Mother's Ghost
John Ibbitson, 1812: Jeremy and the General
Thomas King, A Coyote Columbus Story
Kit Pearson, Looking at the Moon

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales

Other Finalists:

Eric Beddows, Zoom Upstream
Suzanne Duranceau, Hickory, Dickory, Dock
Maryann Kovalski, The Big Storm
Mireille Levert, When Jeremiah Found Mrs. Ming

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:

Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East

Other Finalists:

Neil B. Bishop, Death of the Spider
Sheila Fischman, Felicity's Fool
Luise von Flotow, Deathly Delights
Agnes Whitfield, Divine Diva

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Anne H?ert, L'enfant charg?de songes

Other Finalists:

Lise Bissonnette, Marie suivait l'??/em>
Louis Lefebvre, Guanahani
Gilles Pellerin, Je reviens avec la nuit
Louise Simard, La tr? noble demoiselle

Poetry
Winners:
Gilles Cyr, Androm?e attendra

Other Finalists:
Paul B?anger, Retours suivi de Minuit, l'aube
Yves Boisvert, La balance du vent
Pierre Ouellet, Fonds suivi de Faix
Jean-No? Pontbriand, Lieux - Passages

Drama
Winner:
Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Les petits orteils

Other Finalists:
Dominic Champagne, La cit?interdite
Robert Claing, Anna
Marie Laberge, Pierre ou la consolation
Marthe Mercure, Tu faisais comme un appel

Non-Fiction
Winner:
Pierre Turgeon, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James

Other Finalists:
Gilles Boileau, Le silence des Messieurs. Oka, terre indienne
Jean Marcel, Pens?s, passions et proses
Pierre Morency, Lumi?e des oiseaux
Louis Sabourin, Passion d'?re, d?ir d'avoir

Children's Literature - Text
Winner:
Christiane Duchesne, Victor

Other Finalists:
Linda Brousseau, Coups durs pour une sorci?e
Dominique Demers, Un hiver de tourmente
Esther Rochon, L'ombre et le cheval
Daniel Sernine, Les r?es d'Argus

Children's Literature - Illustration
Winner:
Gilles Tibo, Simon et la ville de carton

Other Finalists:
Honey Fox, Le b??de Lulu
Pierre Pratt, L?n sans son chapeau
Daniel Sylvestre , Mais qui va trouver le tr?or?

Translation (from English to French)
Winner:
Jean Papineau, La m?oire postmoderne

Other Finalists:
Marie-Luce Constant, Les princes marchands
Herv?Juste, Le Canada aux ench?es
Mich?e Marineau, Le monde merveilleux de Marigold

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