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1996 Governor General's Awards

The 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented on November 13, 1996.[1]

English

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
Non-fiction Blue ribbon John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
Poetry Blue ribbon E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
Drama Blue ribbon Colleen Wagner, The Monument
  • Wendy Lill, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
  • John Mighton, The Little Years
  • Michael O'Brien, Mad Boy Chronicle
  • Betty Quan, Mother Tongue
Children's literature Blue ribbon Paul Yee, Ghost Train
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift
  • Alan Daniel and Lea Daniel, Sody Salleratus
  • Wang Kui, The Wise Washerman – A Folktale from Burma
  • Johnny Wales, Gruntle Piggle Takes Off
  • Werner Zimmermann, Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe!
French to English translation Blue ribbon Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (Daniel Danis, Cendres de cailloux)

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Michel Freitag, Le Naufrage de l'université – Et autres essais d'épistémologie politique
  • Gérard Bouchard, Quelques arpents d'Amérique – Population, économie, famille au Saguenay 1838–1971
  • Gilles Lapointe, L'Envol des signes – Borduas et ses lettres
  • Benoît Melançon, Diderot épistolier – Contribution à une poétique de la lettre familière au XVIIIe siècle
  • Denis Vaugeois, La Fin des alliances franco-indiennes – Enquête sur un sauf-conduit de 1760 devenu un traité en 1990
Poetry Blue ribbon Serge Patrice Thibodeau Le Quatuor de l'errance / La Traversée du désert
Drama Blue ribbon Normand Chaurette, Le Passage de l'Indiana
Children's literature Blue ribbon Gilles Tibo, Noémie – Le Secret de Madame Lumbago
Children's illustration No award presented
English to French translation Blue ribbon Christiane Teasdale, Systèmes de survie – Dialogue sur les fondements moraux du commerce et de la politique
  • Pierre DesRuisseaux, Contre-taille – Poèmes choisis de vingt-cinq auteurs canadiens-anglais
  • Hélène Le Beau, Les Dangers de la pensée critique – Trois nouvelles

References

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  1. ^ Philip Marchand, "Vanderhaeghe wins second fiction prize". Toronto Star, November 13, 1996.
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