Monday, November 18

1990 Awards

1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Pulitzer Prize, Pulitzer Prize - Poetry

1990 Pulitzer Prize – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1990 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry WinnerThe World Doesn't EndCharles SimicIn this collection, winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize, Charles Simic puns, pulls pranks. He can be jazzy and streetwise. Or cloak himself in antiquity. Simic has new eyes, and in these wonderful poems and poems-in-prose he lets the reader see through them....Amazon1990 Pulitzer Prize - Poetry ShortlistSelected and Last PoemsPaul ZweigAmazonTime's PowerAdrienne RichAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial, Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel

1990 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial – Novel Winner and Nominees

1990 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel WinnerThe Edge of the WorldMichael Swanwick...Amazon1990 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial - Novel ShortlistDancing with the ChairsJames Patrick KellyAmazonDori BangsBruce SterlingAmazonFaithJames Patrick KellyAmazonSilver Lady and the Fortyish ManMegan LindholmAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction WinnerLantern Slides: StoriesEdna O'BrienWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction “Superb...[Lantern Slides] continues the quest for origin and explanation that has preoccupied O’Brien...Her stories unearth the primeval feelings buried just below the surface of nostalgia, using memo...Amazon1990 Los Angeles Times Book Prize - Fiction ShortlistBaotownAnyi Wang, Martha AveryAmazonFriend of My YouthAlice MunroAmazonOrdinary Love and Good Will: Two NovellasJane SmileyAmazonReaching Tin RiverThea AstleyAmazon
1990 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

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerRedworkMichael BedardRedwork is published by Fitzhenry and Whiteside....Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistCovered BridgeBrian DoyleAmazonThe AuctionJan AndrewsAmazonWhalesingerWelwyn Wilton KatzAmazon
1990 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

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Orphan BoyPaul MorinThough delighted that an orphan boy has come into his life, an old man becomes insatiably curious about the boys mysterious powers....Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistSeasonsWarabé AskaAmazonThe Huron CarolFrances TyrrellAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English)

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerYellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint LawrenceJane BrierleyThese fireside tales, now translated for the first time, were originally published posthumously in 1893. Brierleys introduction and annotations provide fascinating insights into the life and times of one of the fathers of Canadian literature....Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistBenitoSheila FischmanAmazonCharlevoix: Two Centuries at Murray BayTony Martin-SperryAmazonCommunity Care and Participatory ResearchSusan UsherAmazonLetters to BernadettePatricia ClaxtonAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerNo TimeMargaret Avison"Avisons new volume is a lyrical tribute to a created order suffused with a holy energy--a vitality inaccessible to the statisticians, the engineers, the corporate mandarins. It is not, however, a whimsical, Pollyanish ecstacy that sustains her, but a gri...Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistNo Language Is NeutralDionne BrandAmazonWinterPatrick LaneAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerTrudeau and Our TimesStephen Clarkson & Christina McCallVolume 2: The Heroic Delusion "Winner of the John W. Dafoe Prize for Distinctive Writing" This volume describes in fascinating detail the abiding liberal Pierre Trudeaus quixotic confrontations with his neo-conservative opponents, Margaret Thatcher and Ro...Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistA Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene ForseyEugene ForseyAmazonGod's Dominion: A Sceptic's QuestRon GrahamAmazonInside Memory: Pages from a Writer's WorkbookTimothy FindleyAmazonThe Last Modern: A Life of Herbert ReadJames KingAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerLives of the SaintsNino RicciWhen young Vittorio Innocentes mother, Cristina, is bitten by a snake in the family stable, no one sees the blue-eyed stranger leaving except for Vittorio. He struggles to keep his mothers secret but secrets in a small village are hard to keep, and while...Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistDisappearing Moon CaféSky LeeAmazonFriend of My YouthAlice MunroAmazonMan of My DreamsDiane SchoemperlenAmazonOn Double TracksLeslie Hall PinderAmazon
1990 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

1990 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerGoodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)Ann-Marie MacDonaldGoodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) is an exuberant comedy and feminist revisioning of Shakespeares Othello and Romeo and Juliet. It takes us from a dusty office in Canadas Queens University, into the fraught and furious worlds of two of Shakespea...Amazon1990 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBlack Friday?Audrey ButlerAmazonLove and AngerGeorge F. WalkerAmazonScientific AmericansJohn MightonAmazon