# 1999 Governor General's Awards

The winners of the 1999 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, chairman, and Shirley Thomson, director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16 at the National Library of Canada. Each winner received a cheque for CA$10,000.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After | Neil Bissoondath, The Worlds Within Her Anne Fleming, Pool-hopping and Other Stories Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? Keith Maillard, Gloria |
| Non-fiction | Marq de Villiers, Water | Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder Michael Bliss, William Osler Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion |
| Poetry | Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth | 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 |
| Drama | Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy | Wendy Lill, Corker Daniel MacIvor, Marion Bridge Colleen Murphy, Beating Heart Cadaver Theresa Tova, Still the Night |
| Children's literature | Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day | Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange Graham McNamee, Hate You W.D. Valgardson, The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories Frieda Wishinsky, Each One Special |
| Children's illustration | Gary Clement, The Great Poochini | 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 |
| French to English translation | Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (François Ricard, Gabrielle roy, une vie) | David Homel, Olivo Oliva (Philippe Poloni, Olivo, Oliva) Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel (her own novel L'Empreinte de l'ange) Lazer Lederhendler, The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half (Claire Dé, Bonheur, Oiseau rare) Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift (Jacques Godbout and Alain Caillé, L'Esprit du don) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Lise Tremblay, La Danse juive | 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 |
| Non-fiction | Pierre Perrault, Le Mal du Nord | 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 |
| Poetry | Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations | 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 |
| Drama | Jean-Marc Dalpé, Il n'y a que l'amour | Carole Fréchette, Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse René Gingras, D'Avila Michel Tremblay, Encore une fois, si vous permettez |
| Children's literature | Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas... | 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 illustration | Stéphane Jorisch, Charlotte et l'île du destin | Nicole Lafond, Contes pour enfants Michèle Lemieux, Nuit d'orage Luc Melanson, La Petite Kim Pierre Pratt, La Vie exemplaire de Martha et Paul |
| English to French translation | Jacques Brault, Transfiguration (E. D. Blodgett, Transfiguration) | Charlotte Melançon, Réflexions d'un frère siamois (John Ralston Saul, Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the End of the Twentieth Century) Marie José Thériault, Ours (Marian Engel, Bear) |