Canadian Literary Awards
1996

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Winners of Canadian literary awards for 1996.

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Arthur Ellis Awards

First Novel
John Spencer Hill – The Last Castrato
D.H. Toole – Moonlit Days and Nights
Juvenile
Norah McClintockMistaken Identity
Nonfiction
Lois Simmie – The Secret Lives of Sgt. John Wilson
Novel
L.R. Wright – Mother Love

BC Book Prizes

Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
Patrick Lane – Too Spare, Too Fierce
Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
Audrey Thomas – Coming Down From Wa
Hubert Evans Non-fiction Prize
Claudia Cornwall – Letter From Vienna
Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize
Ken Drushka – HR
Sheila A. Egoff Children's Literature Prize
Nan Gregory – How Smudge Came

Books in Canada First Novel Award

Books in Canada First Novel Award
Anne Michaels – Fugitive Pieces

Giller Prize

Giller Prize
Margaret Atwood – Alias Grace

Governor General's Literary Awards

Children's Literature
Paul Yee – Ghost Train
Fiction
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
Non-fiction
John Ralston Saul – The Unconscious Civilization
Poetry
E.D. Blodgett – Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano

Études et essais
Michel Freitag – Le Naufrage de l'université ­ Et autres essais d'épistémologie politique
Littérature Jeunesse
Gilles Tibo – Noémie
Poésie
Serge Patrice Thibodeau – Le Quatuor de l'errance suivi de La Traversée du désert
Romans et nouvelles
Marie-Claire Blais – Soifs

Leacock Medal for Humour

Leacock Medal for Humour
Marsha Boulton – Letters from the Country

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Clément Moisan

Ontario Library Association

Silver Birch Award
Sylvia McNicoll – Bringing Up Beauty
Anouchka Gravel Galouchko – Sho and the Demons of the Deep

Saskatchewan Book Awards

Book of the Year
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
Fiction
Guy Vanderhaeghe – The Englishman's Boy
First Book
Dave Little – Catching the Wind in a Net: The Religious Vision of Robertson Davies
Non-Fiction
David Carpenter – Courting Saskatchewan
J.R. Miller – Shingwauk's Vision
Poetry
Tonja Gunvaldsen Klaassen – Clay Birds
Regina Book Award
Connie Gault – Inspection of a Small Village
Young Adult
Judith Silverthorne – The Secret of Sentinel Rock

Writers Trust Awards

Marian Engel Award
Barbara Gowdy
Vicky Metcalf Award for Children's Literature
Margaret Buffie


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