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1992 Governor General's Awards

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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

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm
Poetry Blue ribbon Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk
Drama Blue ribbon John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night
Children's literature Blue ribbon Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales
French to English translation Blue ribbon Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (Thierry Hentsch, L'Orient imaginaire)

French Language

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Anne Hébert, L'enfant chargé de songes
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Pierre Turgeon, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James
Poetry Blue ribbon Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra
Drama Blue ribbon Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Les petits orteils
Children's literature Blue ribbon Christiane Duchesne, Victor
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Gilles Tibo, Simon et la ville de carton
English to French translation Blue ribbon Jean Papineau, La mémoire postmoderne (Mark A. Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art)

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