# 1992 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received C$10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient | Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite Archie Crail, The Bonus Deal John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright Sheila Watson, Deep Hollow Creek |
| Non-fiction | Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm | Michael Bliss, Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal Ken Cuthbertson, Inside: The Biography of John Gunther Michael R. Marrus, Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman |
| Poetry | Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk | Evelyn Lau, Oedipal Dreams Laura Lush, Hometown Steve McCaffery, Theory of Sediment Kathleen McCracken, Blue Light, Bay and College |
| Drama | John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night | Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures Dave Carley, Writing With Our Feet Judith Thompson, Lion in the Streets Dianne Warren, Serpent in the Night Sky |
| Children's literature | Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes | Margaret Buffie, My Mother's Ghost John Ibbitson, 1812: Jeremy and the General Thomas King, A Coyote Columbus Story Kit Pearson, Looking at the Moon |
| Children's illustration | Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales | Eric Beddows, Zoom Upstream Suzanne Duranceau, Hickory, Dickory, Dock Maryann Kovalski, The Big Storm Mireille Levert, When Jeremiah Found Mrs. Ming |
| French to English translation | Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (Thierry Hentsch, L'Orient imaginaire) | Neil B. Bishop, Death of the Spider (Michèle Mailhot, La mort de l'araignée) Sheila Fischman, Felicity's Fool (François Gravel, Bonheur fou) Luise von Flotow, Deathly Delights (Anne Dandurand, L'Assassin de l'intérieur / Diables d'espoir) Agnes Whitfield, Divine Diva (Daniel Gagnon, Venite a cantare) |

## French Language

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Anne Hébert, L'enfant chargé de songes | Lise Bissonnette, Marie suivait l'été Louis Lefebvre, Guanahani Gilles Pellerin, Je reviens avec la nuit Louise Simard, La très noble demoiselle |
| Non-fiction | Pierre Turgeon, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James | Gilles Boileau, Le silence des Messieurs. Oka, terre indienne Jean Marcel, Pensées, passions et proses Pierre Morency, Lumière des oiseaux Louis Sabourin, Passion d'être, désir d'avoir |
| Poetry | Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra | Paul Bélanger, Retours suivi de Minuit, l'aube Yves Boisvert, La balance du vent Pierre Ouellet, Fonds suivi de Faix Jean-Noël Pontbriand, Lieux – Passages |
| Drama | Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Les petits orteils | Dominic Champagne, La cité interdite Robert Claing, Anna Marie Laberge, Pierre ou la consolation Marthe Mercure, Tu faisais comme un appel |
| Children's literature | Christiane Duchesne, Victor | Linda Brousseau, Coups durs pour une sorcière Dominique Demers, Un hiver de tourmente Esther Rochon, L'ombre et le cheval Daniel Sernine, Les rêves d'Argus |
| Children's illustration | Gilles Tibo, Simon et la ville de carton | Honey Fox, Le bébé de Lulu Pierre Pratt, Léon sans son chapeau Daniel Sylvestre, Mais qui va trouver le trésor? |
| English to French translation | Jean Papineau, La mémoire postmoderne (Mark A. Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art) | Marie-Luce Constant, Les princes marchands (Peter C. Newman, Company of Adventurers) Hervé Juste, Le Canada aux enchères (Linda McQuaig, The Quick and the Dead) Michèle Marineau, Le monde merveilleux de Marigold (Lucy Maud Montgomery, Magic for Marigold) |