Editing 1995 Governor General's Awards

{{Short description|Canadian literary award}}
The '''1995 Governor General's Literary Awards''' were presented by [[Roméo LeBlanc]], [[Governor General of Canada]] on November 14 at the [[Winter Garden Theatre]] in [[Toronto]].<ref>"Writer's Roaring success: Greg Hollingshead wins Governor-General's Award for fiction". ''[[Vancouver Sun]]'', November 15, 1995.</ref> Each winner received a cheque for $10,000 and a copy of their books specially bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvard.

==English==
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Greg Hollingshead]], ''The Roaring Girl'''''
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*[[Diana Atkinson]], ''Highways and Dancehalls''
*[[Barbara Gowdy]], ''Mister Sandman'' 
*[[Julie Keith]], ''The Jaguar Temple'' 
*[[Richard B. Wright]], ''The Age of Longing''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Rosemary Sullivan]], ''Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen'''''
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*[[Charles Foran]], ''The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast'' 
*[[Linda McQuaig]], ''Shooting the Hippo'' 
*[[Sid Marty]], ''Leaning on the Wind''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry|Poetry]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Anne Szumigalski]], ''Voice'''''
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*[[Roo Borson]], ''Night Walk''
*[[Di Brandt]], ''Jerusalem, Beloved'' 
*[[Don Domanski]], ''Stations of the Left Hand'' 
*[[Steven Heighton]], ''The Ecstasy of Skeptics''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language drama|Drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Jason Sherman]], ''Three in the Back, Two in the Head'''''
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*[[Brad Fraser]], ''[[Poor Super Man]]'' 	
*[[Deborah Kimmett]], ''Miracle Mother'' 
*[[Joan MacLeod]], ''The Hope Slide''/''Little Sister'' 
*[[Eugene Stickland]], ''Some Assembly Required''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature|Children's literature]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Tim Wynne-Jones]], ''The Maestro'''''
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*[[Beth Goobie]], ''Mission Impossible'' 
*[[Hazel Hutchins]], ''Tess'' 
*[[Welwyn Wilton Katz]], ''[[Out of the Dark (1995 novel)|Out of the Dark]]'' 
*[[Diana Wieler]], ''RanVan A Worthy Opponent''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration|Children's illustration]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Ludmila Zeman]], ''The Last Quest of Gilgamesh'''''
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*[[Warabé Aska]], ''Aska's Sea Creatures'' 
*[[Geoff Butler]], ''The Killick: A Newfoundland Story'' 
*[[Gary Clement]], ''Just Stay Put'' 
*[[Frances Tyrrell (author)|Frances Tyrrell]], ''Woodland Christmas''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French to English translation|French to English translation]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[David Homel]], ''Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?''''' ([[Dany Laferrière]], ''Cette grenade dans la main du jeune nègre est-elle une arme ou un fruit?'')
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*[[Paul Leduc Browne]] and [[Dream Michelle Weinroth]], ''Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream'' 
*[[Sheila Fischman]], ''No Song, But Silence'' 
*[[Wayne Grady (author)|Wayne Grady]], ''Black Squirrel'' 
*[[Susan Ouriou]], ''The Road to Chlifa''
|}

==French==
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language fiction|Fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Nicole Houde]], ''Les Oiseaux de Saint-John Perse'''''
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*[[Ying Chen]], ''L'Ingratitude'' 
*[[Louis Hamelin]], ''Betsi Larousse ou l'Ineffable'' 	
*[[Louis Jolicoeur]], ''Saisir l'absence'' 
*[[André Major]], ''La Vie provisoire''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Yvan Lamonde]], ''Louis-Antoine Dessaulles. Un seigneur libéral et anticlérical'''''
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*[[Hélène-Andrée Bizier]], ''Le Noir et le Rouge'' 
*[[Jean Boivin]], ''La Classe de Messiaen'' 
*[[Marcel Fournier (historian)|Marcel Fournier]], ''Marcel Mauss'' 
*[[Daniel Latouche]], ''Plaidoyer pour le Québec''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language poetry|Poetry]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Émile Martel (writer)|Émile Martel]], ''Pour orchestre et poète seul'''''
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*[[Louise Desjardins]], ''La 2e Avenue précédé de Petite sensation, La minutie de l'araignée, Le marché de l'amour'' 
*[[Jocelyne Felx]], ''La Pierre et les heures'' 
*[[Gérald Gaudet]], ''La Fiction de l'âme'' 
*[[Andrée Lacelle]], ''Tant de vie s'égare''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language drama|Drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Carole Fréchette]], ''Les Quatre morts de Marie'''''
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*[[Jean-Marc Dalpé]], ''Lucky Lady''
*[[Suzanne Lebeau]], ''Contes d'enfants réels'' 
*[[Michèle Magny]], ''Marina, le dernier rose aux joues''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature|Children's literature]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Sonia Sarfati]], ''Comme une peau de chagrin'''''
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*[[Jean-Pierre Davidts]], ''Contes du chat gris'' 
*[[Christiane Duchesne]], ''Berthold et Lucrèce''
*[[Annouchka Gravel Galouchko]], ''Sho et les dragons d'eau'' 
*[[Jacques Savoie]], ''Toute la beauté du monde''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration|Children's illustration]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Annouchka Gravel Galouchko]], ''Sho et les dragons d'eau'''''
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*[[Marie-Louise Gay]], ''Berthold et Lucrèce''
*[[Stéphane Jorisch]], ''Le Baiser maléfique'' 
*[[Pierre Pratt]], ''La Bottine magique de Pipo'' 
*[[Rémy Simard]], ''Le père Noël a une crevaison''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English to French translation|English to French translation]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Hervé Juste]], ''Entre l'ordre et la liberté'''''
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*[[Michèle Causse]], ''Loyale à la chasse''
*[[Hervé Juste]], ''Trudeau : l'illusion héroïque'' 
*[[Anne Malena]], ''La Maraude'' 
*[[Marie José Thériault]], ''À l'aube de lendemains précaires''
|}

==References==
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