1992 Governor General's Awards

Summary

Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

English edit

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Non-fiction   Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
  • Michael Bliss, Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal
  • Ken Cuthbertson, Inside: The Biography of John Gunther
  • Michael R. Marrus, Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman
Poetry   Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
Drama   John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night
Children's literature   Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes
Children's illustration   Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales
French to English translation   Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (Thierry Hentsch, L'Orient imaginaire)
  • Neil B. Bishop, Death of the Spider (Michèle Mailhot, La mort de l'araignée)
  • Sheila Fischman, Felicity's Fool (François Gravel, Bonheur fou)
  • Luise von Flotow, Deathly Delights (Anne Dandurand, L'Assassin de l'intérieur / Diables d'espoir)
  • Agnes Whitfield, Divine Diva (Daniel Gagnon, Venite a cantare)

French Language edit

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Anne Hébert, L'enfant chargé de songes
  • Lise Bissonnette, Marie suivait l'été
  • Louis Lefebvre, Guanahani
  • Gilles Pellerin, Je reviens avec la nuit
  • Louise Simard, La très noble demoiselle
Non-fiction   Pierre Turgeon, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James
Poetry   Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra
  • Paul Bélanger, Retours suivi de Minuit, l'aube
  • Yves Boisvert, La balance du vent
  • Pierre Ouellet, Fonds suivi de Faix
  • Jean-Noël Pontbriand, Lieux – Passages
Drama   Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Les petits orteils
  • Dominic Champagne, La cité interdite
  • Robert Claing, Anna
  • Marie Laberge, Pierre ou la consolation
  • Marthe Mercure, Tu faisais comme un appel
Children's literature   Christiane Duchesne, Victor
Children's illustration   Gilles Tibo, Simon et la ville de carton
  • Honey Fox, Le bébé de Lulu
  • Pierre Pratt, Léon sans son chapeau
  • Daniel Sylvestre, Mais qui va trouver le trésor?
English to French translation   Jean Papineau, La mémoire postmoderne (Mark A. Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art)