View source for 1997 Governor General's Awards

The winners of the '''1997 [[Governor General's Literary Awards]]''' were announced on November 18 by [[Donna Scott]], Chairman of the [[Canada Council|Canada Council for the Arts]]. Each winner received a cheque for $10,000.<ref>Robert Reid, "Jane Urquhart wins Governor General's Award for fiction". ''[[Waterloo Region Record]]'', November 19, 1997.</ref>

==English==
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Jane Urquhart]], ''The Underpainter'''''
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*[[Sandra Birdsell]], ''The Two-Headed Calf''
*[[Matt Cohen (writer)|Matt Cohen]], ''Last Seen''
*[[Elizabeth Hay (novelist)|Elizabeth Hay]], ''Small Change''
*[[Eric McCormack (writer)|Eric McCormack]], ''First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Rachel Manley]], ''Drumblair – Memories of a Jamaican Childhood'''''
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*[[Wade Davis (anthropologist)|Wade Davis]], ''One River: Explorations and Discoveries in the Amazon Rain Forest''
*[[Catherine Dunphy]], ''Morgentaler: A Difficult Hero''
*[[Terry Glavin]], ''This Ragged Place – Travels Across the Landscape''
*[[Blair Stonechild]] and [[Bill Waiser]], ''Loyal till Death – Indians and the North-West Rebellion''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry|Poetry]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Dionne Brand]], ''Land to Light On'''''
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*[[Marilyn Bowering]], ''Autobiography''
*[[Patrick Friesen]], ''A Broken Bowl''
*[[Carole Glasser Langille]], ''In Cannon Cave''
*[[Don McKay (poet)|Don McKay]], ''Apparatus''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language drama|Drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Ian Ross (playwright)|Ian Ross]], ''FareWel'''''
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*[[Maureen Hunter]], ''Atlantis''
*[[Lee MacDougall]], ''High Life''
*[[Jason Sherman]], ''Reading Hebron''
*[[Judith Thompson]], ''Sled''

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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature|Children's literature]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Kit Pearson]], ''Awake and Dreaming'''''
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*[[Cheryl Foggo]], ''One Thing That's True''
*[[James Heneghan]], ''Wish Me Luck''
*[[Teddy Jam]], ''The Fishing Summer''
*[[Barbara Nichol]], ''[[Dippers]]''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration|Children's illustration]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Barbara Reid]], ''The Party'''''
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*[[Blair Drawson]], ''Flying Dimitri''
*[[Marie-Louise Gay]], ''Rumpelstiltskin''
*[[Robin Muller]], ''The Angel Tree''
*[[Ludmila Zeman]], ''The First Red Maple Leaf''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French to English translation|French to English translation]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Howard Scott (translator)|Howard Scott]], ''The Euguelion'''''
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*[[Jane Brierley]], ''Canadians of Old''
*[[Patricia Claxton]], ''Baroque at Dawn''
*[[David Homel]], ''A Drifting Year''
*[[Nancy Huston]], ''The Goldberg Variations''
|}

==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}} '''[[Aude (writer)|Aude]], ''Cet imperceptible mouvement'''''
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*[[Bernard Assiniwi]], ''La Saga des Béothuks''
*[[Lise Bissonnette]], ''Quittes et Doubles – Scènes de réciprocité''
*[[Pierre Morency]], ''La Vie entière – Histoires naturelles du Nouveau Monde''
*[[Pierre Ouellet]], ''Légende dorée''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Roland Viau]], ''Enfants du néant et mangeurs d'âmes – Guerre, culture et société en Iroquoisie ancienne'''''
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*[[Fernand Dumont]], ''Une foi partagée''
*[[Yolande Geadah]], ''Femmes voilées, intégrismes démasqués''
*[[Alain Bernard Marchand]], ''Tintin au pays de la ferveur''
*[[François Ricard]], ''Gabrielle Roy – Une vie''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language poetry|Poetry]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Pierre Nepveu]], ''Romans-fleuves'''''
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*[[Nicole Brossard]], ''Vertige de l'avant-scène''
*[[Serge Legagneur]], ''Poèmes choisis, 1961–1997''
*[[Paul Chanel Malenfant]], ''Fleuves''
*[[Hélène Monette]], ''Plaisirs et Paysages kitsch''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language drama|Drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Yvan Bienvenue]], ''Dits et Inédits'''''
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*[[Jasmine Dubé]], ''La Bonne Femme''
*[[Marie-Line Laplante]], ''Une tache sur la lune''
*[[Robert Marinier]], ''L'Insomnie''
*[[Larry Tremblay]], ''Ogre – Cornemuse''

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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature|Children's literature]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Michel Noël (writer)|Michel Noël]], ''Pien'''''
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*[[Dominique Demers]], ''Maïna, tomes 1 et 2''
*[[Agathe Génois]], ''Sarah, je suis là!''
*[[Jacques Godbout]], ''Une leçon de chasse''
*[[Maryse Pelletier]], ''Une vie en éclats''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration|Children's illustration]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Stéphane Poulin]], ''Poil de serpent, dent d'araignée'''''
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*[[Leanne Franson]], ''L'Ourson qui voulait une Juliette''
*[[Stéphane Jorisch]], ''Casse-Noisette''
*[[Gilles Tibo]], ''Simon et le petit cirque''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English to French translation|English to French translation]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Marie José Thériault]], ''Arracher les montagnes'''''
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*[[François Barcelo]], ''La Face cachée des pierres''
*[[Nicole Côté]], ''Verre de tempête''
*[[Pierrot Lambert]], ''L'Insight: Étude de la compréhension humaine''
|}

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