The nominees for the 2004 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 26. The children's literature winners were announced on November 15, and the other winners were announced on November 16. The winners received a cheque for $15,000 and a specially crafted copy of their book bound by master bookbinder Pierre Ouvrard.

The 2004 awards marked the first time that the children's literature awards were presented separately from the adult awards; they were presented at a special ceremony dedicated to promoting children's literature.

Contents

1 English-language finalists 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Poetry 1.3 Drama 1.4 Nonfiction 1.5 Children's Literature - Text 1.6 Children's Literature - Illustration 1.7 Translation (French to English) 2 French language finalists 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Drama: 2.4 Non-Fiction 2.5 Children's Literature - Text 2.6 Children's Literature - Illustration 2.7 Translation - English to French 3 External links 4 Other Governor General's Awards:

English-language finalists

Fiction

• Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
• David Bezmozgis, Natasha and Other Stories
• Trevor Cole, Norman Bray, In the Performance of His Life
• Colin McAdam, Some Great Thing
• Alice Munro, Runaway

Poetry

• Roo Borson, Short Journey Upriver Toward Oishida
• Tim Bowling, The Memory Orchard
• David Manicom, The Burning Eaves
• John Terpstra, Disarmament
• Jan Zwicky, Robinson's Crossing

Drama

• Morris Panych, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
• Robert Chafe, Butler's Marsh and Tempting Providence
• Michael Healey, Rune Arlidge
• Karen Hines, The Pochsy Plays
• Mieko Ouchi, The Red Priest (Eight Ways to Say Goodbye)

Nonfiction

• Lt.-Gen. Roméo Dallaire, Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
• Anne Coleman, I'll Tell You a Secret: A Memory of Seven Summers
• Christopher Dewdney, Acquainted With the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
• Jane Jacobs, Dark Age Ahead
• Jan Zwicky, Wisdom & Metaphor

Children's Literature - Text

• Kenneth Oppel, Airborn
• Martine Leavitt, Heck Superhero
• Sharon MacKay, Esther
• Judd Palmer, The Wolf King
• Ange Zhang, Red Land, Yellow River: A Story from the Cultural Revolution

Children's Literature - Illustration

• Stéphane Jorisch, Jabberwocky
• Nicolas Debon, Dawn Watch
• Marie-Louise Gay, Stella, Princess of the Sky
• Kim LaFave, A Very Unusual Dog
• Barbara Reid, Peg and the Yeti

Translation (French to English)

• Judith Cowan, Mirabel (Pierre Nepveu, Lignes aériennes)
• Sheila Fischman, The Alien House (Élise Turcotte)
• Liedewy Hawke, The Iguana (Denis Thériault)

French language finalists

Fiction

• Pascale Quiviger, Le cercle parfait
• Marguerite Andersen, Parallèles
• Katerine Caron, Vous devez être heureuse
• Sergio Kokis, Les amants d'Alfama
• Didier Leclair, Ce pays qui est le mien

Poetry

• André Brochu, Les jours à vif
• Paul Bélanger, Les jours de l'éclipse
• Mario Brassard, Choix d'apocalypses
• Louise Dupré, Une écharde sous ton ongle
• Pierre Ouellet, Zone franche: liber asylum

Drama:

• Emma Haché, L'intimité
• Franco Catanzariti, Sahel
• Alexis Martin, Bureaux
• Jean-Frédéric Messier, Au moment de sa disparition
• Reynald Robinson, La salle des loisirs

Non-Fiction

• Jean-Jacques Simard, La Réduction: l’Autochtone inventé et les Amérindiens d’aujourd’hui
• Jean-Marie Fecteau, La liberté du pauvre : crime et pauvreté au XIXe siècle québécois
• Brian T. Fitch, Le langage de la pensée et l’écriture : Humboldt, Valéry, Beckett
• Yvan Lamonde, Histoire sociale des idées au Québec (1896-1929)
• Roseline Tremblay, L’écrivain imaginaire: essai sur le roman québécois, 1960-1995

Children's Literature - Text

• Nicole Leroux, L'Hiver de Léo Polatouche
• Édith Bourget, Autour de Gabrielle
• Charlotte Gingras, La boîte à bonheur
• Marie-Francine Hébert, Le ciel tombe à côté
• Nancy Montour, Le coeur au vent

Children's Literature - Illustration

• Janice Nadeau, Nul poisson où aller
• Francine Bouchard (Fanny), Le grand rêve de Passepoil
• Pascale Constantin, Turlututu, rien ne va plus!
• Samuel Parent (Sampar), Savais-tu? Les Hyènes
• Alain Reno, Comment l’ours blanc perdit sa queue

Translation - English to French

• Ivan Steenhout, Les Indes accidentelles (Robert Finley)
• Claire Dé, Le cahier d'Hellman (Robert Majzels)
• Carole Noël, Ce qu'il nous reste (Aislinn Hunter)
• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Le Pas de l'ourse (Douglas Glover, Elle)
• Claudine Vivier, La Rivière disparue (Brian Doyle, Mary Ann Alice)

External links

• Press release announcing finalists (http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2004/ggla_finalists_finalistes.htm)

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