Awards & Winners

1996 Governor General's Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1996 Governor General's Awards. Check awards winners of 1996 Governor General's Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature

Paul Yee

Honored for : Ghost Train
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

E. D. Blodgett

Honored for : Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
Governor General's Award for English-language drama

Colleen Wagner

Honored for : The Monument
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

John Ralston Saul

Honored for : Unconscious Civilization
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Guy Vanderhaeghe

Honored for : The Englishman's Boy

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Audrey Thomas Coming Down from Wa
Cordelia Strube Teaching pigs to sing
Elisabeth Harvor Let me be the one
Guy Vanderhaeghe The Englishman's Boy
Janice Kulyk Keefer The green library
Margaret Atwood Alias Grace
Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration

Eric Beddows

Honored for : The Rooster's Gift