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.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Lynn Coady, Strange Heaven
  • Barbara Gowdy, White Bone
  • Wayne Johnston, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams
  • Kerri Sakamoto, The Electrical Field

Poetry

Winner:

  • Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems

Other Finalists:

Drama

Winner:

  • Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet

Other Finalists:

Nonfiction

Winner:

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 Yvonne Johnson, Stolen Life - The Journey of a Cree Woman

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
  • Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree

Other Finalists:
  • Gayle Friesen, Janey's Girl
  • Julie Johnston, The Only Outcast
  • Janet McNaughton, Make or Break Spring
  • Sarah Withrow, Bat Summer

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Kady MacDonald Denton, A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes

Other Finalists:
  • 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)

Winner:

  • Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me

Other Finalists:
  • Arnold Bennett, Voltaire's Man in America
  • David Homel, The Second Fiddle
  • Daniel Sloate, Aknos and Other Poems

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:

Poetry

Winner:

  • Suzanne Jacob, La Part de feu preceded by Le Deuil de la rancune

Other Finalists:
  • Hugues Corriveau, Le Livre du frère
  • Hélène Dorion, Les Murs de la grotte
  • Christine Richard, L'Eau des oiseaux
  • Michel van Schendel, Bitumes

Drama

Winner:

  • François Archambault, 15 secondes

Other Finalists:
  • Serge Boucher, Motel Hélène
  • Olivier Choinière, Le Bain des raines
  • Carole Fréchette, La Peau d'Élisa
  • Suzanne Lebeau, L'Ogrelet

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • Pierre Nepveu, Intérieurs du Nouveau Monde : Essais sur les littératures du Québec et des Amériques

Other Finalists:
  • 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

Winner:

  • Angèle Delaunois, Variations sur un même &laqno;t'aime»

Other Finalists:
  • 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

Winner:

  • Pierre Pratt, Monsieur Ilétaitunefois

Other Finalists:
  • Stéphane Poulin, Petit zizi
  • Alain Reno, Un tartare pour le bonhomme Sept Heures
  • Yayo, Le Chasseur d'arc-en-ciel

Translation (English to French)

Winner:

  • Charlotte Melançon, Les Sources du moi - La Formation de l'identité moderne

Other Finalists:
  • Paule Noyart, Leonard Cohen - Le Canadien errant
  • Hélène Rioux, Self

Other Governor General's Awards:

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