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.[1] Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Diane Schoemperlen, Forms of Devotion
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Stephanie Bolster, White Stone: The Alice Poems
Drama Blue ribbon Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet
  • Bruce McManus, Selkirk Avenue
  • Richard Sanger, Not Spain
  • Sandra Shamas, Sandra Shamas: A Trilogy of Performances
  • David Young, Inexpressible Island
Children's literature Blue ribbon Janet Lunn, The Hollow Tree
Children's illustration Blue ribbon 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
French to English translation Blue ribbon Sheila Fischman, Bambi and Me

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Christiane Frenette, La Terre ferme
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Suzanne Jacob, La Part de feu preceded by Le Deuil de la rancune
Drama Blue ribbon François Archambault, 15 secondes
Children's literature Blue ribbon 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 illustration Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Charlotte Melançon, Les Sources du moi : La Formation de l'identité moderne
  • Paule Noyart, Leonard Cohen : Le Canadien errant
  • Hélène Rioux, Self

References
  1. Anne-Marie Tobin, "Kingston author savours literary award". Kingston Whig-Standard, November 18, 1998.
  2. "Montrealers deluge list of nominees". Montreal Gazette, October 21, 1998.
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