The winners of the 1997 Governor General's Literary Awards was announced on November 18th by Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter

Other Finalists:
*Sandra Birdsell, The Two-Headed Calf
*Matt Cohen, Last Seen
*Elizabeth Hay, Small Change
*Eric McCormack, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women

Poetry

Winner:
*Dionne Brand, Land to Light On

Other Finalists:
*Marilyn Bowering, Autobiography
*Patrick Friesen, A Broken Bowl
*Carole Glasser Langille, In Cannon Cave
*Don McKay, Apparatus

Drama

Winner:
*Ian Ross, fareWel

Other Finalists:
*Maureen Hunter, Atlantis
*Lee MacDougall, High Life
*Jason Sherman, Reading Hebron
*Judith Thompson, Sled

Non-fiction

Winner:
*Rachel Manley, Drumblair - Memories of a Jamaican Childhood

Other Finalists:
*Wade Davis, One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest
*Catherine Dunphy, Morgentaler: A Difficult Hero
*Terry Glavin, This Ragged Place - Travels Across the Landscape
*Blair Stonechild and Bill Waiser, Loyal till Death - Indians and the North-West Rebellion

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Kit Pearson, Awake and Dreaming

Other Finalists:
*Cheryl Foggo, One Thing That's True
*James Heneghan, Wish Me Luck
*Teddy Jam, The Fishing Summer
*Barbara Nichol, Dippers

Children's Literature - Illustrations

Winner:
*Barbara Reid, The Party

Other Finalists:
*Blair Drawson, Flying Dimitri
*Marie-Louise Gay, Rumpelstiltskin
*Robin Muller, The Angel Tree
*Ludmila Zeman, The First Red Maple Leaf

Translation - French to English

Winner:
*Howard Scott, The Euguelion

Other Finalists:
*Jane Brierley, Canadians of Old
*Patricia Claxton, Baroque at Dawn
*David Homel, A Drifting Year
*Nancy Huston, The Goldberg Variations

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Aude, Cet imperceptible mouvement

Other Finalists:
*Bernard Assiniwi, La Saga des Béothuks
*Lise Bissonnette, Quittes et Doubles - Scènes de réciprocité
*Pierre Morency, La Vie entière - Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde
*Pierre Ouellet, Légende dorée

Poetry

Winner:
*Pierre Nepveu, Romans-fleuves

Other Finalists:
*Nicole Brossard, Vertige de l'avant-scène
*Serge Legagneur, Poèmes choisis, 1961-1997
*Paul Chanel Malenfant, Fleuves
*Hélène Monette, Plaisirs et Paysages kitsch

Drama

Winner:
*Yvan Bienvenue, Dits et Inédits

Other Finalists:
*Jasmine Dubé, La Bonne Femme
*Marie-Line Laplante, Une tache sur la lune
*Robert Marinier, L'Insomnie
*Larry Tremblay, Ogre - Cornemuse

Non-Fiction

Winner:
*Roland Viau, Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes - Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne

Other Finalists:
*Fernand Dumont, Une foi partagée
*Yolande Geadah, Femmes voilées, intégrismes démasqués
*Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveur
*François Ricard, Gabrielle Roy - Une vie

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Michel Noël, Pien

Other Finalists:
*Dominique Demers, Maïna, tomes 1 et 2
*Agathe Génois, Sarah, je suis là!
*Jacques Godbout, Une leçon de chasse
*Maryse Pelletier, Une vie en éclats

Children's Literature - Illustrations

Winner:
*Stéphane Poulin, Poil de serpent, dent d'araignée

Other Finalists:
*Leanne Franson, L'Ourson qui voulait une Juliette
*Stéphane Jorisch, Casse-Noisette
*Gilles Tibo, Simon et le petit cirque

Translation - English to French

Winner:
*Marie José Thériault, Arracher les montagnes

Other Finalists:
*François Barcelo, La Face cachée des pierres
*Nicole Côté, Verre de tempête
*Pierrot Lambert, L'Insight: Étude de la compréhension humaine

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