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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerWaterMarq de VilliersExamines the political and ecological consequences of the uses and misuses of water as increasing demands threaten the global supply--issues compounded by decreasing water table levels and rampant pollution....Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBaltimore’s Mansion - A MemoirWayne JohnstonAmazonPaper Shadows - A Chinatown ChildhoodWayson ChoyAmazonSurpassing Wonder - The Invention of the Bible and the TalmudsDonald Harman AkensonAmazonWilliam Osler - A Life in MedicineMichael BlissAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerSongs for Relinquishing the EarthJan ZwickySongs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwickys experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario. Songs for Relinquishing ...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistBig Breath of a WishRichard HarrisonAmazonThe Bridge that Carries the RoadLynn DaviesAmazonThe Island in WinterTerence YoungAmazonThe True Names of BirdsSusan GoyetteAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English)

1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerGabrielle Roy: A LifePatricia ClaxtonDespite the popularity and critical success Gabrielle Roy found as a writer, she lived a life often touched by sadness. In this definitive account of her life, François Ricard draws a penetrating and eloquent portrait that does full honour to his extraordi...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistOlivo OlivaDavid HomelAmazonThe Mark of the AngelNancy HustonAmazonThe Sparrow has Cut the Day in HalfLazer LederhendlerAmazonThe World of the GiftDonald WinklerAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Great PoochiniGary ClementWhile Poochini is an ordinary dog by day, at night he becomes the "Great Poochini," an opera singer among dogs, but his career is threatened when his master accidentally locks him in, until a cat burglar provides the solution....Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistBrave Highland HeartWerner ZimmermannAmazonI Know an Old LaddieRose CowlesAmazonSindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One NightsLudmila ZemanAmazonThe Dragon New YearZhong-Yang HuangAmazon

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1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text

1999 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerA Screaming Kind of DayRachna GilmoreScully, a young hearing-impaired girl, wants to play outside in the rain, away from her brother Leo and her busy mother. She loves to feel the sensation of the rain running over her face. After escaping briefly to the wet green trees outside, she is ground...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEach One SpecialFrieda WishinskyAmazonHate YouGraham McNameeAmazonThe Christmas OrangeDon GillmorAmazonThe Divorced Kids Club and Other StoriesW.D. ValgardsonAmazon

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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerElizabeth RexTimothy FindleyBased on the original stage production at the Stratford Festival of Canada, directed by Martha Henry. In this daring and original production of Timothy Findleys Governor-General Award winning play, William Shakespeare and the formidable Virgin Queen, Eliz...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistAlien CreatureLinda GriffithsAmazonConsecrated GroundGeorge BoydAmazonIt's All TrueJason ShermanAmazonMonsterDaniel MacIvor and Daniel BrooksAmazon

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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerAnil's GhostMichael OndaatjeA breathtaking novel about love and the horrors of civil war from the bestselling author of The English Patient. There is much to astonish, to disturb and to admire in this book... A rare triumph Guardian Anils Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a countr...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistMercy Among the ChildrenDavid Adams RichardsAmazonMonkey BeachEden RobinsonAmazonThe Blind AssassinMargaret AtwoodAmazonThe QuestionAustin ClarkeAmazon

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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerNotes from the Hyena's BellyNega MezlekiaIn this acclaimed memoir, Mezlekia recalls his boyhood in the arid city of Jijiga, Ethiopia, and his journey to manhood during the 1970s and 1980s. He traces his personal evolution from child to soldier--forced at the age of eighteen to join a guerrilla ar...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Story as Sharp as a KnifeRobert BringhurstAmazonRiver in a Dry LandTrevor HerriotAmazonThe Girl in the PictureDenise ChongAmazonThe Spinster and the ProphetA. B. McKillopAmazon

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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerAnother GravityDon McKayFrom one of Canadas most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor Generals Award for Poetry. This book, Don McKays ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, coul...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistHis LifeGeorge BoweringAmazonRest on the Flight into EgyptA.F. MoritzAmazonRuin and BeautyPatricia YoungAmazonWater StairJohn PassAmazon

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2000 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English)

2000 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerJust FineRobert MajzelsJust Fine is a touching and often hilarious novel that traces the mishaps and misadventures of a conflicted agoraphobe: a woman psychologically restricted to a life indoors but spiritually inclined to wander the meadows, roads, and community beyond the hou...Amazon2000 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) Shortlist15 SecondsBobby TheodoreAmazonDown Dangerous Passes RoadLinda GaboriauAmazonTerra FirmaSheila FischmanAmazon