1995 Governor General's Awards

The 1995 Governor General's Literary Awards were presented by Roméo LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada on November 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000 and a copy of their books specially bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvard.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Greg Hollingshead, "The Roaring Girl"

Other Finalists:
*Diana Atkinson, "Highways and Dancehalls"
*Barbara Gowdy, "Mister Sandman"
*Julie Keith, "The Jaguar Temple"
*Richard B. Wright, "The Age of Longing"

Poetry

Winner:
*Anne Szumigalski, "Voice"

Other Finalists:
*Roo Borson, "Night Walk"
*Di Brandt, "Jerusalem, Beloved"
*Don Domanski, "Stations of the Left Hand"
*Steven Heighton, "The Ecstasy of Skeptics"

Drama

Winner:
*Jason Sherman, "Three in the Back, Two in the Head"

Other Finalists:
*Brad Fraser, "Poor Super Man: A Play with Captions"
*Deborah Kimmett, "Miracle Mother"
*Joan MacLeod, "The Hope Slide - Little Sister"
*Eugene Stickland, "Some Assembly Required"

Non-Fiction

Winner:
*Rosemary Sullivan, "Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen"

Other Finalists:
*Charles Foran, "The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast"
*Linda McQuaig, "Shooting the Hippo"
*Sid Marty, "Leaning on the Wind"

Children's Literature, Text

Winner:
*Tim Wynne-Jones, "The Maestro"

Other Finalists:
*Beth Goobie, "Mission Impossible"
*Hazel Hutchins, "Tess"
*Welwyn Wilton Katz, "Out of the Dark"
*Diana Wieler, "RanVan A Worthy Opponent"

Children's Literature, Illustration

Winner:
*Ludmila Zeman, "The Last Quest of Gilgamesh"

Other Finalists:
*Warabé Aska, "Aska's Sea Creatures"
*Geoff Butler, "The Killick: A Newfoundland Story"
*Gary Clement, "Just Stay Put"
*Frances Tyrrell, "Woodland Christmas"

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:
*David Homel, "Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?"

Other Finalists:
*Paul Leduc Browne and Dream Michelle Weinroth, "Trudeau and the End of a Canadian"
*Sheila Fischman, "No Song, But Silence"
*Wayne Grady, "Black Squirrel"
*Susan Ouriou, "The Road to Chlifa"

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Nicole Houde, "Les Oiseaux de Saint-John Perse"

Other Finalists:
*Ying Chen, "L'Ingratitude"
*Louis Hamelin, "Betsi Larousse ou l'Ineffable"
*Louis Jolicoeur, "Saisir l'absence"
*André Major, "La Vie provisoire"

Poetry

Winner:
*Émile Martel, "Pour orchestre et poète seul"

Other Finalists:
*Louise Desjardins, "La 2e Avenue précédé de Petite sensation, La minutie de l'araignée, Le marché de l'amour"
*Jocelyne Felx, "La Pierre et les Heures"
*Gérald Gaudet, "La Fiction de l'âme"
*Andrée Lacelle, "Tant de vie s'égare"

Drama

Winner:
*Carole Fréchette, "Les Quatre Morts de Marie"

Other Finalists:
*Jean Marc Dalpé, "Lucky Lady"
*Suzanne Lebeau, "Contes d'enfants réels"
*Michèle Magny, "Marina, le dernier rose aux joues"

Non-Fiction

Winner:
*Yvan Lamonde, "Louis-Antoine Dessaulles. Un seigneur libéral et anticlérical"

Other Finalists:
*Hélène-Andrée Bizier, "Le Noir et le Rouge"
*Jean Boivin, "La Classe de Messiaen"
*Marcel Fournier, "Marcel Mauss"
*Daniel Latouche, "Plaidoyer pour le Québec"

Children's Literature, Text

Winner:
*Sonia Sarfati, "Comme une peau de chagrin"

Other Finalists:
*Jean-Pierre Davidts, "Contes du chat gris"
*Christiane Duchesne, "Berthold et Lucrèce"
*Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, "Sho et les dragons d'eau"
*Jacques Savoie, "Toute la beauté du monde"

Children's Literature, Illustration

Winner:
*Annouchka Gravel Galouchko, "Sho et les dragons d'eau"

Other Finalists:
*Marie-Louise Gay, "Berthold et Lucrèce"
*Stéphane Jorisch, "Le Baiser maléfique"
*Pierre Pratt, "La Bottine magique de Pipo"
*Rémy Simard, "Le père Noël a une crevaison"

Translation (English to French)

Winner:
*Hervé Juste, "Entre l'ordre et la liberté"

Other Finalists:
*Michèle Causse, "Loyale à la chasse"
*Hervé Juste, "Trudeau : l'illusion héroïque"
*Anne Malena, "La Maraude"
*Marie José Thériault, "À l'aube de lendemains précaires"