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 17 in Ottawa. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.

English-language finalists

Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-fiction

  • David Adams Richards, Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi
  • 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 Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman

Children's literature (text)

Children's literature (illustration)

  • Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes
  • Victor Bosson, The Fox's Kettle
  • Harvey Chan, Music for the Tsar of the Sea
  • Zhong-Yang Huang, The Great Race
  • Stéphane Jorisch, The Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other Stories

Translation (from French to English)

French-language finalists

Fiction

Poetry

Drama

Non-fiction

  • Pierre Nepveu, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques
  • Chantal Bouchard, La Langue et le Nombril : Histoire d'une obsession québécoise
  • Marcel Olscamp, Le Fils du notaire Jacques Ferron 1921-1949 : Genèse intellectuelle d'un écrivain
  • Régine Robin, Le Golem de l'écriture : De l'autofiction au Cybersoi
  • Patricia Smart, Les Femmes du Refus global

Children's literature (text)

  • Angèle Delaunois, Variations sur un même «t'aime»
  • Guy Dessureault, Lettre de Chine
  • Daniel Mativat, Terreur sur la Windigo
  • Danielle Rochette, La Fugue d'Antoine
  • Hélène Vachon, Le Cinéma de Somerset

Children's literature (illustration)

  • Pierre Pratt, Monsieur Ilétaitunefois
  • Stéphane Poulin, Petit zizi
  • Alain Reno, Un tartare pour le bonhomme Sept Heures
  • Yayo, Le Chasseur d'arc-en-ciel

English-to-French translation

  • Charlotte Melançon, Les Sources du moi : La Formation de l'identité moderne
  • Paule Noyart, Leonard Cohen : Le Canadien errant
  • Hélène Rioux, Self
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