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1993 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1993 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Fiction

Winner:

  • Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

    • Other Finalists:

  • Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
  • Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
  • David Adams Richards, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
  • Carol Windley, Visible Light

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World

    • Other Finalists:

  • Claire Harris, Drawing Down a Daughter
  • Monty Reid, Crawlspace: New and Selected Poems
  • Douglas Burnet Smith, Voices from a Farther Room
  • Patricia Young, More Watery Still

    • Drama

    Winner:

  • Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas

    • Other Finalists:

  • Daniel MacIvor, House Humans
  • Raymond Storey, The Saints and Apostles
  • David Young, Glenn

    • Non-Fiction

    Winner:

  • Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon

    • Other Finalists:

  • Marq de Villiers, The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir
  • Marian Fowler, In a Gilded Cage
  • Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival
  • Noël Mostert, Frontiers

    • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets

    • Other Finalists:

  • Mitzi Dale, Bryna Means Courage
  • James Archibald Houston, Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search
  • Carol Matas, Daniel's Story
  • Shirley Sterling, My Name Is Seepeetza

    • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming

    • Other Finalists:

  • Scott Cameron, Beethoven Lives Upstairs
  • Marc Mongeau, There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen!
  • Russ Willms, Brewster Rooster
  • Leo Yerxa, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall

    • Translation (from French to English)

    Winner:

  • D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three

    • Other Finalists:

  • Jane Brierley, The Maerlande Chronicles
  • Sheila Fischman, Following the Summer
  • Linda Gaboriau, The Eye Is an Eagle
  • Käthe Roth, The Last Cod Fish

    • Fiction

    Winner:

  • Nancy Huston, Cantique des plaines

    • Other Finalists:

  • Esther Croft, Au commencement était le froid
  • Robert Lalonde, Sept lacs plus au nord
  • Rober Racine, Le Mal de Vienne
  • Pierre Yergeau, Tu attends la neige, Léonard?

    • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange

    • Other Finalists:

  • Denise Boucher, Grandeur nature
  • Roger Des Roches, La Réalité
  • Madeleine Gagnon, La Terre est remplie de langage
  • Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de Prague

    • Drama

    Winner:

  • Daniel Danis, Celle-là

    • Other Finalists:

  • Jasmine Dubé, Petit Monstre
  • Gilbert Dupuis, Kushapatshikan

    • Non-Fiction

    Winner:

  • François Paré, Les Littératures de l'exiguïté

    • Other Finalists:

  • Léon Dion, Québec 1945–2000 : Les intellectuels et le temps de Duplessis
  • Maurice Lemire, Formation de l'imaginaire littéraire au Québec 1764–1867
  • Jean Terrasse, De Mentor à Orphée
  • Andrée Yanacopoulo, Hans Selye ou la Cathédrale du stress

    • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Michèle Marineau, La Route de Chlifa

    • Other Finalists:

  • Yves Beauchemin, Antoine et Alfred
  • Dominique Demers, Les grands sapins ne meurent pas
  • Raymond Plante, Les Dents de la poule

    • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Stéphane Jorisch, Le Monde selon Jean de ...

    • Other Finalists:

  • Francis Back, Des crayons qui trichent
  • Michel Bisson, Thomas et la nuit
  • Sheldon Cohen, Le Plus Long Circuit
  • François Vaillancourt, Le Premier Voyage de Monsieur Patapoum

    • Translation (from English to French)

    Winner:

  • Marie José Thériault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois

    • Other Finalists:

  • Hervé Juste, Histoire de la sécurité sociale au Canada
  • Charlotte Melançon, Grandeur et misère de la modernité

    • References

    1993 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia
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