Governor General's Award for Fiction
The Governor General's Award for Fiction ( French Prix du Gouverneur général pour romans et nouvelles ) is Canada's most prestigious literary award . It is awarded for outstanding and important fictional prose texts .
history
The Governor General's Awards for Fiction were initiated in 1936 by Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir . With this award, the multi-part Governor General's Awards began. The first recipient of the Governor General's Awards for Fiction was Bertram Brooker ( Think of the Earth , 1936)
Initially, the winners were selected by the Canadian Authors' Association , and in 1944 an Awards Board was formed for this purpose . Until 1959, the prize went exclusively to English-language works, including translations of books by Francophone authors: Philippe Panneton's Thirty Acres (1940), Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute (1947), Germaine Guèvremont's The Outlander (1950). Since 1959, the award has been given in both English and French. Since 1979, a shortlist with three to six nominated works has been published in advance of the award ceremony . The prize money awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts (Conseil des arts du Canada) has increased over the years from 1,000 CAD (1959) to 25,000 CAD (2007) per winning book. In addition, the award winners' publishers have received CAD 3,000 each to promote the book.
Prize winner (since 1959)
| year | Prix pour romans et nouvelles de langue française | Award for English-language fiction |
|---|---|---|
| 1959 | André Giroux , Malgré tout, la joie | Hugh MacLennan , The Watch that Ends the Night |
| 1960 | - | Brian Moore , The Luck of Ginger Coffey |
| 1961 | Yves Thériault , Ashini | Malcolm Lowry , Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place |
| 1962 | Jacques Ferron , Contes du pays incertain | Kildare Dobbs , Running to Paradise |
| 1963 | - | Hugh Garner , Hugh Garner's Best Stories |
| 1964 | Jean-Paul Pinsonneault , Les Terres sèches | Douglas LePan , The Deserter |
| 1965 | Gérard Bessette , L'Incubation | - |
| 1966 | Claire Martin , La joue droite | Margaret Laurence , A Jest of God |
| 1967 | Jacques Godbout , Salut Galarneau | - |
| 1968 | Marie-Claire Blais , Manuscrits de Pauline Archange and Hubert Aquin , Trou de mémoire (rejected by the author) | Alice Munro , Dance of the Happy Shades |
| 1969 | Louise Maheux-Forcier , Une forêt pour Zoé | Robert Kroetsch , The Studhorse Man |
| 1970 | Monique Bosco , La Femme de Loth | Dave Godfrey , The New Ancestors |
| 1971 | Gérard Bessette , Le Cycle | Mordecai Richler , St. Urbain's Horseman |
| 1972 | Antonine Maillet , Don l'Orignal | Robertson Davies , The Manticore |
| 1973 | Réjean Ducharme , L'Hiver de force | Rudy Wiebe , The Temptations of Big Bear |
| 1974 | Victor-Lévy Beaulieu , Don Quixote de la démanche | Margaret Laurence , The Diviners |
| 1975 | Anne Hébert , Les Enfants du sabbat | Brian Moore , The Great Victorian Collection |
| 1976 | André Major , Les Rescapés | Marian Engel , Bear |
| 1977 | Gabrielle Roy , Ces enfants de ma vie | Timothy Findley , The Wars |
| 1978 | Jacques Poulin , Les Grandes Marées | Alice Munro , Who Do You Think You Are? |
| 1979 | Marie-Claire Blais , Le Sourd dans la ville | Jack Hodgins , The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne |
| 1980 | Pierre Turgeon , La première personne | George Bowering , Burning Water |
| 1981 | Denys Chabot , La Province lunaire | Mavis Gallant , Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories |
| 1982 | Roger Fournier , Le Cercle des arènes | Guy Vanderhaeghe , Man Descending |
| 1983 | Suzanne Jacob , Laura Laur | Leon Rooke , Shakespeare's Dog |
| 1984 | Jacques Brault , agony | Josef Škvorecký , The Engineer of Human Souls |
| 1985 | Fernand Ouellette , Lucie ou un midi en novembre | Margaret Atwood , The Handmaid's Tale |
| 1986 | Yvon Rivard , Les Silences du corbeau | Alice Munro , The Progress of Love |
| 1987 | Gilles Archambault , L'Obsédante obèse et Autres Agressions | MT Kelly , A Dream Like Mine |
| 1988 | Jacques Folch-Ribas , Le Silence ou le Parfait Bonheur | David Adams Richards , Nights Below Station Street |
| 1989 | Louis Hamelin , La Rage | Paul Quarrington , Whale Music |
| 1990 | Gérald Tougas , La Mauvaise Foi | Nino Ricci , Lives of the Saints |
| 1991 | André Brochu , La Croix du Nord | Rohinton Mistry , Such a Long Journey |
| 1992 | Anne Hébert , L'Enfant chargé de songes | Michael Ondaatje , The English Patient |
| 1993 | Nancy Huston , Cantique des plaines | Carol Shields , The Stone Diaries |
| 1994 | Robert Lalonde , Le Petit Aigle à tête blanche | Rudy Wiebe , A Discovery of Strangers |
| 1995 | Nicole Houde , Les Oiseaux de Saint-John Perse | Greg Hollingshead , The Roaring Girl |
| 1996 | Marie-Claire Blais , Soifs | Guy Vanderhaeghe , The Englishman's Boy |
| 1997 | Aude , Cet imperceptible mouvement | Jane Urquhart , The Underpainter |
| 1998 | Christiane Frenette , La Terre ferme | Diane Schoemperlen , Forms of Devotion |
| 1999 | Lise Tremblay , La Danse juive | Matt Cohen , Elizabeth and After |
| 2000 | Jean-Marc Dalpé , Un vent se lève qui éparpille | Michael Ondaatje , Anil's Ghost |
| 2001 | Andrée A. Michaud , Le Ravissement | Richard B. Wright , Clara Callan |
| 2002 | Monique LaRue , La Gloire de Cassiodore | Gloria Sawai , A Song for Nettie Johnson |
| 2003 | Élise Turcotte , La Maison étrangère | Douglas Glover , Elle |
| 2004 | Pascale Quiviger , Le Cercle parfait | Miriam Toews , A Complicated Kindness |
| 2005 | Aki Shimazaki , Hotaru | David Gilmour , A Perfect Night to Go to China |
| 2006 | Andrée Laberge , La Rivière du loup | Peter Behrens , The Law of Dreams |
| 2007 | Sylvain Trudel , La mer de la Tranquillité | Michael Ondaatje , Divisadero |
| 2008 | Marie-Claire Blais , Naissance de Rebecca à l'ère des tourments | Nino Ricci , The Origin of Species |
| 2009 | Julie Mazzieri , Le discours sur la tombe de l'idiot | Kate Pullinger , The Mistress of Nothing |
| 2010 | Kim Thúy , Ru | Dianne Warren , Cool Water |
| 2011 | Perrine Leblanc , L'homme blanc | Patrick deWitt , The Sisters Brothers |
| 2012 | France Daigle , Pour sûr | Linda Spalding , The Purchase |
| 2013 | Stéphanie Pelletier , Quand les guêpes se taisent | Eleanor Catton , The Luminaries |
| 2014 | Andrée A. Michaud , Bondrée | Thomas King , The Back of the Turtle |
| 2015 | Nicolas Dickner , Six degrés de liberté | Guy Vanderhaeghe , Daddy Lenin and Other Stories |
| 2016 | Dominique Fortier , Au péril de la mer | Madeleine Thien , Do Not Say We Have Nothing |
| 2017 | Christian Guay-Poliquin , Le poids de la neige | Joel Thomas Hynes , We'll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night |
| 2018 | Karoline Georges , De synthèse | Sarah Henstra , The Red Word |
Web links
- Finalists and winners of the Governor General's Literary Awards 1936–2016 (PDF) at: ggbooks.ca (English, French), accessed on May 13, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield at: archive.gg.ca, accessed on August 14, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Patricia E. Bovey: Bertram Richard Brooker ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
- ^ A b Governor General's Literary Awards ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved July 29, 2019.
- ↑ Pseudonym: Ringuet, trans. Franziska Maria Tenberg: Thirty Acres of Land. A Canadian novel. Benziger, Einsiedeln 1940
- ↑ Governor General's Literary Awards at: canadacouncil.ca, accessed on August 13, 2015 (English, French ).