Saturday, November 23

Governor General’s Literary Award

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

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

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerElizabeth and AfterMatt CohenA touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his familys legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed ...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistCan You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?Elyse GascoAmazonGloriaKeith MaillardAmazonPool-hopping and Other StoriesAnne FlemingAmazonThe Worlds Within HerNeil BissoondathAmazon
1999 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

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

1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerThe Drawer BoyMichael Healey...Amazon1999 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistBeating Heart CadaverColleen MurphyAmazonCorkerWendy LillAmazonMarion BridgeDaniel MacIvorAmazonStill the NightTheresa TovaAmazon
1998 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

1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Text Winner and Nominees

1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text WinnerThe Hollow TreeJanet LunnFrom one of Canadas best loved childrens writers comes the enthralling tale of a brave young girl caught up in the American Revolutionary War. It is 1777 and Phoebe Olcott is thrown headlong into the horrors of war when her beloved cousin Gideon is hange...Amazon1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Text ShortlistBat SummerSarah WithrowAmazonJaney’s GirlGayle FriesenAmazonMake or Break SpringJanet McNaughtonAmazonThe Only OutcastJulie JohnstonAmazon
1998 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

1998 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerA Child’s Treasury of Nursery RhymesKady MacDonald DentonChildhood rhymes, verses and songs to tickle funny bones, soothe spirits and make toes tap and imaginations soar!...Amazon1998 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistMusic for the Tsar of the SeaHarvey ChanAmazonThe Fox’s KettleVictor BossonAmazonThe Great RaceZhong-Yang HuangAmazonThe Village of a Hundred Smiles and Other StoriesStéphane JorischAmazon