English Language
Fiction
Winner:
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
Other Finalists:
- Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace
- Elisabeth Harvor, Let Me Be the One
- Janice Kulyk Keefer, The Green Library
- Cordelia Strube, Teaching Pigs to Sing
- Audrey Thomas, Coming Down from Wa
Poetry
Winner:
- E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
Other Finalists:
- Elizabeth Brewster, Footnotes to the Book of Job
- Crispin Elsted, Climate and the Affections
- Charles Lillard, Shadow Weather
- Erin Mouré, Search Procedures
Drama
Winner:
- Colleen Wagner, The Monument
Other Finalists:
- Wendy Lill, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
- John Mighton, The Little Years
- Michael O'Brien, Mad Boy Chronicle
- Betty Quan, Mother Tongue
Non-Fiction
Winner:
- John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
Other Finalists:
- Roy MacGregor, The Home Team - Fathers, Sons & Hockey
- T.F. Rigelhof, A Blue Boy in a Black Dress
- Lake Sagaris, After the First Death: A Journey Through Chile, Time, Mind
- Merilyn Simonds, The Convict Lover: A True Story
Children's Literature - Text
Winner:
- Paul Yee, Ghost Train
Other Finalists:
- Jan Andrews, Keri
- David Boyd, Bottom Drawer
- Gillian Chan, Glory Days and Other Stories
- Don Gillmor, The Fabulous Song
Children's Literature - Illustraion
Winner:
- Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift
Other Finalists:
- Alan and Lea Daniel, Sody Salleratus
- Wang Kui, The Wise Washerman - A Folktale from Burma
- Johnny Wales, Gruntle Piggle Takes Off
- Werner Zimmermann, Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe!
Translation - from French to English
Winner:
- Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes
Other Finalists:
- Sheila Fischman, Ostend
- D.G. Jones, For Orchestra and Solo Poet
- Shelley Tepperman, In Vitro
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