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1995 Governor General's Awards

The 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards were presented by Roméo LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada on November 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000 and a copy of their books specially bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvard.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Diana Atkinson, Highways and Dancehalls
  • Barbara Gowdy, Mister Sandman
  • Julie Keith, The Jaguar Temple
  • Richard B. Wright, The Age of Longing

Poetry

Winner:

  • Anne Szumigalski, Voice

Other Finalists:

Drama

Winner:

  • Jason Sherman, Three in the Back, Two in the Head

Other Finalists:
  • Brad Fraser, Poor Super Man: A Play with Captions
  • Deborah Kimmett, Miracle Mother
  • Joan MacLeod, The Hope Slide - Little Sister
  • Eugene Stickland, Some Assembly Required

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • Rosemary Sullivan, Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen

Other Finalists:
  • Charles Foran, The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast
  • Linda McQuaig, Shooting the Hippo
  • Sid Marty, Leaning on the Wind

Children's Literature, Text

Winner:

  • Tim Wynne-Jones, The Maestro

Other Finalists:

Children's Literature, Illustration

Winner:

  • Ludmila Zeman, The Last Quest of Gilgamesh

Other Finalists:
  • Warabé Aska, Aska's Sea Creatures
  • Geoff Butler, The Killick: A Newfoundland Story
  • Gary Clement, Just Stay Put
  • Frances Tyrrell, Woodland Christmas

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:

  • David Homel, Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?

Other Finalists:
  • Paul Leduc Browne and Dream Michelle Weinroth, Trudeau and the End of a Canadian
  • Sheila Fischman, No Song, But Silence
  • Wayne Grady, Black Squirrel
  • Susan Ouriou, The Road to Chlifa

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Ying Chen, L'Ingratitude
  • Louis Hamelin, Betsi Larousse ou l'Ineffable
  • Louis Jolicoeur, Saisir l'absence
  • André Major, La Vie provisoire

Poetry

Winner:

  • Émile Martel, Pour orchestre et poète seul

Other Finalists:
  • Louise Desjardins, La 2e Avenue précédé de Petite sensation, La minutie de l'araignée, Le marché de l'amour
  • Jocelyne Felx, La Pierre et les Heures
  • Gérald Gaudet, La Fiction de l'âme
  • Andrée Lacelle, Tant de vie s'égare

Drama

Winner:

  • Carole Fréchette, Les Quatre Morts de Marie

Other Finalists:
  • Jean Marc Dalpé, Lucky Lady
  • Suzanne Lebeau, Contes d'enfants réels
  • Michèle Magny, Marina, le dernier rose aux joues

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • Yvan Lamonde, Louis-Antoine Dessaulles. Un seigneur libéral et anticlérical

Other Finalists:
  • Hélène-Andrée Bizier, Le Noir et le Rouge
  • Jean Boivin, La Classe de Messiaen
  • Marcel Fournier, Marcel Mauss
  • Daniel Latouche, Plaidoyer pour le Québec

Children's Literature, Text

Winner:

  • Sonia Sarfati, Comme une peau de chagrin

Other Finalists:
  • Jean-Pierre Davidts, Contes du chat gris
  • Christiane Duchesne, Berthold et Lucrèce
  • Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, Sho et les dragons d'eau
  • Jacques Savoie, Toute la beauté du monde

Children's Literature, Illustration

Winner:

  • Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, Sho et les dragons d'eau

Other Finalists:
  • Marie-Louise Gay, Berthold et Lucrèce
  • Stéphane Jorisch, Le Baiser maléfique
  • Pierre Pratt, La Bottine magique de Pipo
  • Rémy Simard, Le père Noël a une crevaison

Translation (English to French)

Winner:

  • Hervé Juste, Entre l'ordre et la liberté

Other Finalists:
  • Michèle Causse, Loyale à la chasse
  • Hervé Juste, Trudeau : l'illusion héroïque
  • Anne Malena, La Maraude
  • Marie José Thériault, À l'aube de lendemains précaires

Other Governor General's Awards:

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