The Canada Council of the Arts has announced the winners of this year's
Governor-General Literary Awards. Each winner receives C$15,000 (about
US$12,580) and a copy of the winning book bound by Montreal bookbinder
Lise Dubois. The English- and French-language honorees are:
Fiction
Nonfiction
Poetry
Drama
Children's Literature--Text
Children's Literature--Illustration
Translation
Fiction
- David Gilmour for A Perfect Night to Go to China (Thomas Allen & Son, 0887621678).
- Aki Shimazaki for Hotaru (Leméac Éditeur/Actes Sud, 2760924300).
Nonfiction
- John Vaillant for The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed (Knopf Canada, 067697645X).
- Michel Bock for Quand la Nation Débordait les Frontières: Les Minorités Françaises dans la Pensée de Lionel Groulx (Éditions Hurtubise HMH, 2894287070).
Poetry
- Anne Compton for Processional (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 1550413449).
- Jean-Marc Desgent for Vingtièmes Siècles (Les Écrits des Forges, 2890469107).
Drama
- John Mighton for Half Life (Playwrights Canada Press, 0887548164).
- Geneviève Billette for Le Pays des Genoux (Leméac Éditeur/Actes Sud, 2760924297).
Children's Literature--Text
- Pamela Porter for The Crazy Man (Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press, cloth 0888996942, paper 0888996950).
- Camille Bouchard for Le Ricanement des Hyènes (Les Éditions de la Courte Échelle, 2890217671).
Children's Literature--Illustration
- Rob Gonsalves for Imagine a Day, text by Sarah L. Thomson (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 0689852193).
- Isabelle Arsenault for Le Cur de Monsieur Gauguin, text by Marie-Danielle Croteau (Les Éditions Les 400 Coups, 2895401837).
Translation
- Fred A. Reed for Truth or Death: The Quest for Immortality in the Western Narrative Tradition (Talonbooks, 0889225095). The original: Raconter et Mourir: Aux Sources Narratives de l'Imaginaire Occidental by Thierry Hentsch (Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal).
- Rachel Martinez for Glenn Gould: Une Vie (Les Éditions du Boréal, 2764603428). The original: Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould by Kevin Bazzana (McClelland and Stewart).