Awards & Winners

1998 Governor General's Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1998 Governor General's Awards. Check awards winners of 1998 Governor General's Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

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

Janet Lunn

Honored for : The Hollow Tree
Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

Stephanie Bolster

Honored for : White Stone
Governor General's Award for English-language drama

Djanet Sears

Honored for : Harlem duet
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

David Adams Richards

Honored for : Lines on the Water
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Diane Schoemperlen

Honored for : Forms of devotion

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
Barbara Gowdy The White Bone
Diane Schoemperlen Forms of devotion
Kerri Sakamoto The electrical field
Lynn Coady Strange Heaven
Wayne Johnston The Colony of Unrequited Dreams: A Novel
Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration

Kady MacDonald Denton

Honored for : A Child's Treasury of Nursery Rhymes