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

Other Governor General's Awards: