The winners of the 1999 Canadian Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16th at the National Library of Canada. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000. Jean-Louis Roux (born May 18, 1923) is a noted entertainer and playwright, senator, and briefly Lieutenant Governor of Quebec. ... The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is an agency of the Government of Canada created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. ... Library and Archives Canada (in French: Bibliothèque et Archives Canada) is a cultural institution created by the Parliament of Canada in 2004 (S.C. 2004, c. ...

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After

Other Finalists: Matt Cohen Matt Cohen (1942-1999) was a Canadian writer. ...

• Neil Bissoondath, The Worlds Within Her
• Anne Fleming, Pool-hopping and Other Stories
• Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
• Keith Maillard, Gloria

Neil Devindra Bissoondath (born 1955 in Trinidad and Tobago) is a Canadian author who lives in Ste-Foy, Quebec. ...

Poetry

Winner:

• Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

Other Finalists: Jan Zwicky is a Canadian philosopher, poet and essayist who lives Victoria, British Columbia and is a professor at the University of Victoria. ...

• Lynn Davies, The Bridge that Carries the Road
• Susan Goyette, The True Names of Birds
• Richard Harrison, Big Breath of a Wish
• Terence Young, The Island in Winter

Canadia Lynn Davies (born May 20, 1942 in Nantymoel, Wales) was captain of the British Olympic long jump team in 1968; he won a gold medal in the event in 1964. ... Susan Goyette is a Canadian author. ... Richard Harrison is a Canadian poet, and winner of the City of Calgary Book Prize. ... Stewart Terence Herbert Young (June 20, 1915 – September 7, 1994) was a British film director, born in Shanghai, China, was public-school educated, and read Far Eastern History at St Catharines College, Cambridge. ...

Drama

Winner:

• Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy

Other Finalists: Michael Healey is a major Canadian playwright. ...

• Wendy Lill, Corker
• Daniel MacIvor, Marion Bridge
• Colleen Murphy, Beating Heart Cadaver
• Theresa Tova, Still the Night

Wendy Lill Wendy Lill (born November 2, 1950 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian playwright and politician. ... Daniel MacIvor (born 1962) is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. ...

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Marq de Villiers, Water

Other Finalists:

• Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder
• Michael Bliss, William Osler
• Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows
• Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion - A Memoir

Michael Bliss (born 1941) is a Canadian historian and outspoken public figure. ... Wayson Choy (蔡韋森 Pinyin: Cài Wéisēn ; Jyutping: Coi3 Wai5-sam1) (born April 20, 1939) is a Vancouver-born Canadian writer of Chinese ancestry who spent his childhood in the Chinatown, Downtown. ... Wayne Johnston (born 1958 in in Goulds, Newfoundland) is a Canadian novelist. ...

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day

Other Finalists:

• Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange
• Graham McNamee, Hate You
• W.D. Valgardson, The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
• Frieda Wishinsky, Each One Special

W.D. Valgardson (born 1939 in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a Canadian novelist, story writer, and poet. ...

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Gary Clement, The Great Poochini

Other Finalists:

• Rose Cowles, I Know an Old Laddie
• Zhong-Yang Huang, Dragon New Year
• Ludmila Zeman, Sindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
• Werner Zimmermann, Brave Highland Heart

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:

• Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life

Other Finalists: Patricia Claxton is a Canadian translator, primarily of Quebec literature. ...

• David Homel, Olivo Oliva
• Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel
• Lazer Lederhendler, The Sparrow has Cut the Day in Half
• Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift

Nancy Huston (born September 16, 1953) is a Canadian-born author who writes primarily in French. ...

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Lise Tremblay, La Danse juive

Other Finalists:

• Hugues Corriveau, Le Ramasseur de souffle
• Jacques Marchand, Les Vents dominants
• Carole Massé, L'Ennemi
• Gaétan Soucy, La Petite Fille qui aimait trop les allumettes

Gaétan Soucy (born in 1958 at Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a novelist and professor. ...

Poetry

Winner:

• Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations

Other Finalists: His Honour the Honourable Dr. Herménégilde Chiasson (born St. ...

• Claude Beausoleil, Le Chant du voyageur
• Nicole Brossard, Musée de l'os et de l'eau
• Carole David, La Maison d'Ophélie
• Pierre Ouellet, Dieu sait quoi

Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943 in Montreal) is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist. ... Carl Joseph Yvon Ouellet (born December 30, 1967 in Sainte-Catherine, Quebec) is a Québécois Canadian professional wrestler. ...

Drama

Winner:

• Jean-Marc Dalpé, Il n'y a que l'amour

Other Finalists: Jean-Marc Dalpé (born 1957 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian playwright and poet. ...

• Carole Fréchette, Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse
• René Gingras, D'Avila
• Michel Tremblay, Encore une fois, si vous permettez

Michel Tremblay (born June 25, 1942) is an important Quebec novelist and playwright. ...

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Pierre Perrault, Le Mal du Nord

Other Finalists:

• Anne Élaine Cliche, Dire le livre
• Jean-Claude Dubé, Le Chevalier de Montmagny - Premier gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France
• François-Marc Gagnon, Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois 1941-1954
• Daniel Jacques, Nationalité et Modernité

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas...

Other Finalists:

• Agathe Génois, Adieu, vieux lézard!
• Andrée-Anne Gratton, Le Message du biscuit chinois
• Sylvie Nicolas, Célestine Motamo
• Raymond Plante, Marilou Polaire et l'iguane des neiges

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Stéphane Jorish, Charlotte et l'île du destin

Other Finalists:

• Nicole Lafond, Contes pour enfants
• Michèle Lemieux, Nuit d'orage
• Luc Melanson, La Petite Kim
• Pierre Pratt, La Vie exemplaire de Martha et Paul

Translation (English to French)

Winner:

• Jacques Brault, Transfiguration

Other Finalists: Jacques Brault (born March 29, 1933) is a French Canadian poet who lives in Cowansville, Quebec. ...

• Charlotte Melançon, Réflexions d'un frère siamois
• Marie José Thériault, Ours

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