1999 Awards Gala

Award winners

Le Prix de traduction de la Fondation Cole / The Cole Foundation Prize for Translation

then known as The Translation Prize

Winner

These Festive Nights (House of Anans) by  Sheila Fischman
Translation of
Soifs (Éditions du Boréal) by  Marie-Claire Blais

shortlisted

Gabrielle Roy: A Life (McClelland & Stewart) by  Patricia Claxton
Translation of
Gabrielle Roy: Une Vie (Éditions du Boréal) by  François Girard
Romans-fleuves (Exile Editions) by  Donald Winkler
Translation of
Romans-fleuves (Éditions du Noroît) by  Pierre Nepveu

The A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry


Winner

Facts (Véhicule Press) by  Bruce Taylor

shortlisted

Grounding Sight (Empyreal Press) by  D.G. Jones
A Frame of the Book (House of Anansi) by  Erín Moure

The Concordia University First Book Prize

then known as McAuslan First Book Prize

Winner

Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? (McClelland & Stewart) by  Elyse Gasco

shortlisted

Prisoner In a Red-Rose Chain (Thistledown Press) by  Jeffrey Moore
Charlevoix County, 1930 (Penumbra Press) by  Jori Smith

The Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction


shortlisted

Voice of the Vanishing Minority (McGill-Queen’s University Press) by  Robert Hill
Charlevoix County, 1930 (Penumbra Press) by  Jori Smith

The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

then known as Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction

Winner

Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? (McClelland & Stewart) by  Elyse Gasco

shortlisted

The Worlds Within Her (Alfred A. Knopf Canada) by  Neil Bissoondath
City of Ice (HarperCollins) by  John Farrow

Judy Mappin Community Award


Winner

Mireille Goulet for the commitment and professionalism she displayed in her work for the Electronic Rights Defence Committee