1999 GG winners announced

[Northwest Passages]

                ****apologies for cross-posting****
Hi everyone,
     Earlier this morning the winners of the 1999 Governor General's Awards
for Literature were announced in Ottawa.
    As usual, all winning titles will be 15% off between now and Christmas.
We are currently not carrying the French titles but will very happily bring
them in if there's a demand. Drop by Northwest Passages
(www.nwpassages.com)a bit later today for our full GG 1999 site.
        Paul

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

FICTION:
        Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
        Lise Tremblay, La Danse juive

POETRY:
        Jan Zwicky, Victoria, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
        Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations

DRAMA:
        Jean-Marc Dalpé, Il n'y a que l'amour
        Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy


NON-FICTION
        Marq de Villiers, Water
        Pierre Perrault, Le Mal du Nord

TRANSLATION (French to English)
        Patricia Claxton, Montreal, for Gabrielle Roy: A Life
        (English version of Gabrielle Roy, Une Vie, by François Ricard)

TRANSLATION (English to French)
        Jacques Brault, Transfiguration
        (described by the jury as the "French version of Transfiguration
         by E.D. Blodgett and Jacques Brault")

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - TEXT
        Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day
        Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas...

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - ILLUSTRATION
        Gary Clement, The Great Poochini (text by David Clement)
        Stéphane Jorish, Charlotte et l'île du destin (text by Olivier Lasser)

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Paul Martin, PhD candidate
Department of Comparative Literature, Religion, and Film/Media Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E6
CANADA
Paul.Martin at ualberta.ca
paul at nwpassages.com

THIS MONTH AT NORTHWEST PASSAGES (http://www.nwpassages.com): Our feature
author is Zsuzsi Gartner and our feature titles are the nominees for the
1999 Giller Prize!
NEW AT POLDY.COM, the all Ulysses bookstore (http://www.poldy.com): If you
haven't already seen it check out the fantastic Orchises Press facsimile of
the first edition of Ulysses.  A must have for all Joyceans!