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[1]	Neil Bissoondath, The Worlds Within Her[2] Anne Fleming, Pool-hopping and Other Stories[2] Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?[2] Keith Maillard, Gloria[2]
Non-fiction	Marq de Villiers, Water[1]	Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder[2] Michael Bliss, William Osler[2] Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood[2] Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion[2]
Poetry	Jan Zwicky, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth[1]	Lynn Davies, The Bridge that Carries the Road[3] Susan Goyette, The True Names of Birds[3] Richard Harrison, Big Breath of a Wish[3] Terence Young, The Island in Winter[3]
Drama	Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy[1]	Wendy Lill, Corker[3] Daniel MacIvor, Marion Bridge[3] Colleen Murphy, Beating Heart Cadaver[3] Theresa Tova, Still the Night[3]
Children's literature	Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day[4]	Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange[3] , Hate You[3] W.D. Valgardson, The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories[3] Frieda Wishinsky, Each One Special[3]
Children's illustration	Gary Clement, The Great Poochini[4]	, I Know an Old Laddie[3] , Dragon New Year[3] Ludmila Zeman, Sindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights[3] Werner Zimmermann, Brave Highland Heart[3]
French to English translation	Patricia Claxton, Gabrielle Roy: A Life (François Ricard, Gabrielle roy, une vie)[4]	David Homel, Olivo Oliva (, Olivo, Oliva)[3] Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel (her own novel L'Empreinte de l'ange)[3] Lazer Lederhendler, The Sparrow Has Cut the Day in Half (Claire Dé, Bonheur, Oiseau rare)[3] Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift (Jacques Godbout and Alain Caillé, L'Esprit du don)[3]

French[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Lise Tremblay, La Danse juive[4]	, Le Ramasseur de souffle , 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[1]	Anne Élaine Cliche, Dire le livre , Le Chevalier de Montmagny: Premier gouverneur de la Nouvelle-France François-Marc Gagnon, Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois 1941-1954 , Nationalité et Modernité
Poetry	Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations[4]	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[4]	Carole Fréchette, Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse , D'Avila Michel Tremblay, Encore une fois, si vous permettez
Children's literature	Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas...[4]	Agathe Génois, Adieu, vieux lézard! , Le Message du biscuit chinois , Célestine Motamo , Marilou Polaire et l'iguane des neiges
Children's illustration	Stéphane Jorisch, Charlotte et l'île du destin[4]	, Contes pour enfants , Nuit d'orage , La Petite Kim , La Vie exemplaire de Martha et Paul
English to French translation	Jacques Brault, Transfiguration (E. D. Blodgett, Transfiguration)[4]	, 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)

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