| Category |
Winner |
Nominated |
| Fiction |
Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy |
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| Non-fiction |
John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization |
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| Poetry |
E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano |
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| Drama |
Colleen Wagner, The Monument |
- Wendy Lill, The Glace Bay Miners' Museum
- John Mighton, The Little Years
- Michael O'Brien, Mad Boy Chronicle
- Betty Quan, Mother Tongue
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| Children's literature |
Paul Yee, Ghost Train |
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| Children's illustration |
Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift |
- Alan Daniel and Lea Daniel, Sody Salleratus
- Wang Kui, The Wise Washerman – A Folktale from Burma
- Johnny Wales, Gruntle Piggle Takes Off
- Werner Zimmermann, Whatever You Do, Don't Go Near That Canoe!
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| French to English translation |
Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (Daniel Danis, Cendres de cailloux) |
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