Wednesday, November 27

Governor General’s Literary Award

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
1989 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

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerBad BoyDiana WielerA.J. Brandiosa becomes the bad boy of the Cyclone hockey team, and learns that his best friend is gay, as he tries to cope with his own sexuality during his senior year in high school....Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistCircle of LightEliane Corbeil RoeAmazonThe Sky is FallingKit PearsonAmazon
1989 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

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerThe Magic PaintbrushRobin MullerIn this classic story of enchantment, the richly detailed paintings echo the struggle between good and evil. This brilliantly illustrated tale won Robin Muller the GovernorGenerals Award. Nib is a young orphan boy with one wish — to be a painter. When he ...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistA Gift from Saint FrancisMichèle LemieuxAmazonThe Wildlife 123Jan ThornhillAmazon
1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English)

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerOn the Eighth DayWayne GradyIn On the Eighth Day, Antonine Maillet imagines a solution to the worlds problems: a wider and more exuberant world, with its right more left and its left more right, created on "the day when everything is dared and anything is possible." She spins a tale...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistKaleidoscopeArlette FrancièreAmazonRose and ThornDonald WinklerAmazon
1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Word for SandHeather SpearsThe Word for Sand by Heather Spears takes up where her previous book, The Lowther Award-winning How to Read Faces, left off. The poems are informed by the authors long sojourns in both Canada and Europe. The Word for Sand won the Governor Generals Award ...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistDuninoStephen ScobieAmazonTourist to EcstasyTim LilburnAmazon
1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerWillie—The Life of W. Somerset MaughamRobert Calder...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistAn Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North AmericaDale A. RussellAmazonWombs and Alien SpiritsJanice BoddyAmazonWordstruckRobert MacNeilAmazon
1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerWhale MusicPaul QuarringtonDes Howell is a former rock n roll star who never leaves his secluded oceanfront mansion. Naked, rich and fabulously deranged, he subsists on a steady diet of whiskey, pharmaceuticals and jelly doughnuts and occasionally works on his masterpiece, "Whale ...Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistA View from the RoofHelen WeinzweigAmazonThe Golden ThreadAnn CopelandAmazon
1989 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

1989 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerThe Other Side of the DarkJudith ThompsonPink: Cast gender - female only; number - 1 female; size - small; age - child; length - 1 act. Monologue. South African white girl mourns loss of black servant killed in protest march....Amazon1989 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistDry Lips Oughta Move to KapuskasingTomson HighwayAmazonTamaraJohn KrizancAmazon
1988 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

1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe Third MagicWelwyn Wilton KatzHaving traveled out of her era to an alien world called Nwm, Morgan Lefevre faces great challenges as she is caught between two battling forces in an effort to get hold of the ancient sword that controls the Third Magic. Reprint....Amazon1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistEasy AvenueBrian DoyleAmazonLittle by LittleJean LittleAmazonParadise Café and Other StoriesMartha BrooksAmazon
1988 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

1988 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerAmos's SweaterKim LaFaveAmos, an old sheep, is tired of having his wool cut off, and tries to take the sweater that has been made from it....Amazon1988 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistAngel and the Polar BearMarie-Louise GayAmazonHow the Devil Got His CatJillian Hulme GillilandAmazonSleepersDayal Kaur KhalsaAmazonThe Wildlife ABCJan ThornhillAmazon