GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR
FICTION
GLORIA SAWAI |
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Probably the most prestigious literary award in Canada, the Governor General's Award is administered by the Canada Council and has been awarded continuously since 1936 even though the number of awards has changed over time. There are now 14 categories awarded in both French and English: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature - Text, Children's Literature - Illustration and Translation. A jury reviews books published by Canadian authors published in Canada or abroad during the previous year (Oct. 1 – Sept. 30) and winners are announced in November. The winners for Fiction in English are as follows.
2002 | Gloria Sawai | A Song for Nettie Johnson |
2001 | Richard B. Wright | Clara Callan |
2000 | Michael Ondaatje | Anil's Ghost |
1999 | Matt Cohen | Elizabeth and After |
1998 | Diane Schoemperien | Forms of Devotion |
1997 | Jane Urquhart | The Underpainter |
1996 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | The Englishman's Boy |
1995 | Greg Hollingshead | The Roaring Girl |
1994 | Rudy Wiebe | A Discovery of Strangers |
1993 | Carol Shields | The Stone Diaries |
1992 | Michael Ondaatje | The English Patient |
1991 | Rohinton Mistry | Such a Long Journey |
1990 | Nino Ricci | The Lives of the Saints |
1989 | Paul Quarrington | Whale Music |
1988 | David Adams Richards | Nights Below Station Street |
1987 | M.T.A. Kelly | A Dream Like Mine |
1986 | Alice Munro | The Progress of Love |
1985 | Margaret Atwood | The Handmaid's Tale |
1984 | Josef Skvorecky | Engineer of the Human Souls |
1983 | Leon Rooke | Shakespeare's Dog |
1982 | Guy Vanderhaeghe | Man Descending |
1981 | Mavis Gallant | Home Truths |
1980 | George Bowering | Burning Water |
1979 | Jack Hodkins | The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne |
1978 | Alice Munro | Who Do You Think You Are? |
1977 | Timothy Findley | The Wars |
1976 | Marian Engel | Bear |
1975 | Brian Moore | The Great Victorian Collection |
1974 | Margaret Laurence | The Diviners |
1973 | Rudy Wiebe | The Temptations of Big Rear |
1972 | Robertson Davies | The Manticore |
1971 | Mordecai Richler | St. Urbain's Horseman |
1970 | Dave Godfrey | The New Ancestors |
1969 | Robert Kroetsch | The Studhorse man |
1968 | Alice Munro | Dance of the Happy Shades |
1967 | No Award | |
1966 | Margaret Laurence | A Jest of God |
1965 | No Award | |
1964 | Douglas LePan | The Deserter |
1963 | Hugh Garner | Hugh Garner's Best Stories |
1962 | Kildare Dobbs | Running to Paradise |
1961 | Malcolm Lowry | Here Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place |
1960 | Brian Moore | The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
1959 | Hugh MacLennan | The Watch that Ends the Night |
1958 | Colin McDougall | Execution |
1957 | Gabrielle Roy | Street of Riches |
1956 | Adele Wiseman | The Sacrifice |
1955 | Lionel Shapiro | The Sixth of June |
1954 | Igor Gouzenko | The Fall of a Titan |
1953 | David Walker | Digby |
1952 | David Walker | The Pillar |
1951 | Morley Callaghan | The Loved and the Lost |
1950 | Germaine Guevremont | The Outlander |
1949 | Philip Child | Mr. Ames Against Time |
1948 | Hugh MacLennan | The Precipice |
1947 | Gabrielle Roy | The Tin Flute |
1946 | Winifred Bambrick | Continental Revue |
1945 | Hugh MacLennan | Two Solitudes |
1944 | Gwethalyn Graham | Eart and High Heaven |
1943 | Thomas H. Raddall | The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek |
1942 | G. Herbert Sallans | Little Man |
1941 | Alan Sullivan | Three Came to Ville Marie |
1940 | Rinquet (Phillipe Panneton) | Thirty Acres |
1939 | Franklin D. McDowell | The Champlain Road |
1938 | Gwethalyn Graham | Swiss Sonata |
1937 | Laura G. Salverson | The Dark Weaver |
1936 | Bertram Brooker | Think of the Earth |
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