1999 GG nominees announced

[Northwest Passages]

                ****apologies for cross-posting****
Hi everyone,
    I'd hoped to get these out earlier today, but here they are.  Some
interesting choices here, most notably the translation prize where Nancy
Huston is up for translating her own book and the nomination of Jacques
Brault for the "French version of Transfiguration by E.D. Blodgett and
Jacques Brault."  Both of these books are very deserving, I think, of their
nominations, but the categories leave something to be desired.  Once again,
there is also no crossover between the Giller list and the list for English
language fiction.
    As usual, all nominees will be 15% off between now and when the winners
are announced. 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


FICTION:

        Neil Bissoondath, The Worlds Within Her
        Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
        Anne Fleming, Pool-hopping and Other Stories
        Elyse Gasco, Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby?
        Keith Maillard, Gloria


        Hugues Corriveau, Le Ramasseur de souffle
        Jacques Marchand, Les Vents dominants
        Carole Massé, L'Ennemi
        Gaétan Soucy, La Petite Fille qui aimait trop les allumettes
        Lise Tremblay, La Danse juive

POETRY:
        Lynn Davies, The Bridge that Carries the Road
        Susan Goyette, The True Names of Birds
        Richard Harrison, Big Breath of a Wish
        Terence Young, The Island in Winter
        Jan Zwicky, Victoria, Songs for Relinquishing the Earth

        Claude Beausoleil, Le Chant du voyageur
        Nicole Brossard, Musée de l'os et de l'eau
        Herménégilde Chiasson, Conversations
        Carole David, La Maison d'Ophélie
        Pierre Ouellet, Dieu sait quoi

DRAMA:
        Jean-Marc Dalpé, Il n'y a que l'amour
        Carole Fréchette, Montreal, Les Sept Jours de Simon Labrosse
        René Gingras, D'Avila
        Michel Tremblay, Encore une fois, si vous permettez

        Michael Healey, The Drawer Boy
        Wendy Lill, Corker
        Daniel MacIvor, Marion Bridge
        Colleen Murphy, Beating Heart Cadaver
        Theresa Tova, Still the Night


NON-FICTION
        Donald Harman Akenson, Surpassing Wonder
        Michael Bliss, William Osler - A Life in Medicine
        Wayson Choy, Paper Shadows - A Chinatown Childhood
        Marq de Villiers, Water
        Wayne Johnston, Baltimore's Mansion - A Memoir

        Anne Élaine Cliche, Dire le livre
        Jean-Claude Dubé, Le Chevalier de Montmagny - Premier gouverneur de
la Nouvelle-France
        François-Marc Gagnon Chronique du mouvement automatiste québécois
1941-1954
        Daniel Jacques, Nationalité et Modernité
        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)

David Homel, Montreal, for Olivo Oliva
(English version of Olivo Oliva, by Philippe Poloni)

Nancy Huston, The Mark of the Angel
(English version of L'Empreinte de l'ange, by Nancy Huston)

Lazer Lederhendler, The Sparrow has Cut the Day in Half
(English version of Bonheur, oiseau rare, by Claire Dé)

Donald Winkler, The World of the Gift
(English version of L'Esprit du don, by Jacques T. Godbout in collaboration
with Alain Caillé)


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

Charlotte Melançon, Réflexions d'un frère siamois - Le Canada à l'aube du
XXIe siècle
(French version of Reflections of a Siamese Twin - Canada at the End of the
Twentieth Century by John Ralston Saul)

Marie José Thériault, Ours (Bear by Marian Engel)

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - TEXT

        Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange
        Rachna Gilmore, A Screaming Kind of Day
        Graham McNamee, Hate You
        W.D. Valgardson, The Divorced Kids Club and Other Stories
        Frieda Wishinsky, Each One Special

        Agathe Génois, Adieu, vieux lézard!
        Charlotte Gingras, La Liberté? Connais pas...
        Andrée-Anne Gratton, Le Message du biscuit chinois
        Sylvie Nicolas, Célestine Motamo
        Raymond Plante, Marilou Polaire et l'iguane des neiges


CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - ILLUSTRATION
Gary Clement, The Great Poochini (text by David Clement)
Rose Cowles, I Know an Old Laddie (text by Jean Little)
Zhong-Yang Huang, The Dragon New Year (text by David Bouchard)
Ludmila Zeman, Sindbad: from the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights (text
by Ludmila Zeman)
Werner Zimmermann, Brave Highland Heart (text by Heather Kellerhals-Stewart)


Stéphane Jorish, Charlotte et l'île du destin (text by Olivier Lasser)
Nicole Lafond, Contes pour enfants (text by Gabrielle Roy)
Michèle Lemieux, Nuit d'orage (text by Michèle Lemieux)
Luc Melancon, La Petite Kim (text by Kim Yaroshevskaya)
Pierre Pratt, La Vie exemplaire de Martha et Paul (text by Pierre Pratt)



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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

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