The winners of the 1999 Governor General's Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, chairman, and Shirley Thomson, director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16 at the National Library of Canada. Each winner received a cheque for .
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| align="center"| Fiction
| Matt Cohen, Elizabeth and After
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- Neil Bissoondath, The Worlds Within Her
- Anne Fleming, Pool-hopping and Other Stories
- Susan Goyette, The True Names of Birds
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- Don Gillmor, The Christmas Orange