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1984 Governor General's Awards

SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Fiction

Winner:

Josef Skvorecky , ''The Engineer of Human Souls''

Other Finalists:

Timothy Findley , ''Not Wanted on the Voyage''

Susan Kerslake , ''The Book of Fears''

Audrey Thomas , ''Intertidal Life''

Poetry

Winner:

Paulette Jiles , ''Celestial Navigation''

Other Finalists:

Roo Borson , ''The Whole Night, Coming Home''

Marilyn Bowering , ''The Sunday before Winter''

David McFadden , ''The Art of Darkness''

Sharon Thesen , ''Confabulations''

Peter Van Toorn , ''Mountain Tea''

Drama

Winner:

Judith Thompson , ''White Biting Dog''

Other Finalists:

James Reaney , ''The Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy Fulfilled''

George Ryga , ''A Letter to My Son''

Non-fiction

Winner:

Sandra Gwyn , ''The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier''

Other Finalists:

Bob Beal and Rod Macleod , ''Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion''

Graham Fraser , ''P.Q.: René Levesque and the Parti Québécois in Power''

FRENCH LANGUAGE

Fiction

Winner:

Jacques Brault , ''Agonie''

Other Finalists:

Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska , ''La Maison Trestler''

Jacques Poulin , ''Volkswagen Blues''

Jacques Savoie , ''Les Portes tournantes''

Marie José Thériault , ''Les Demoiselles de Numidie''

Poetry

Winner:

Nicole Brossard , ''Double Impression''

Other Finalists:

Michel Beaulieu , ''Kaléidoscope''

André Roy , ''Les sept jours de la jouissance''

Elise Turcotte , ''Navires de guerre''

Drama

Winner:

René-Daniel Dubois , ''Ne blâmez jamais les Bédouins''

Other Finalists:

Gilbert Dupuis , ''Les Transporteurs de monde''

Marcel Sabourin , ''Pleurer pour rire''

Michel Tremblay , ''Albertine en cinq temps''

Non-fiction

Winner:

Jean Hamelin and Nicole Gagnon , ''Le XXe Siècle: Histoire du catholicisme québécois''

Other Finalists:

Luc Bureau , ''Entre l'Éden et l'Utopie''

Philippe Haeck , ''La Table d'écriture: poéthique et modernité''

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