1993 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1993 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 dollars 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.

Table of contents

1 English Language

1.1 Fiction
1.2 Poetry
1.3 Drama
1.4 Non-Fiction
1.5 Children's Literature - Text
1.6 Children's Literature - Illustration
1.7 Translation (from French to English)

2 French Language

2.8 Fiction
2.9 Poetry
2.10 Drama
2.11 Non-Fiction
2.12 Children's Literature - Text
2.13 Children's Literature - Illustration
2.14 Translation (from English to French)

3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

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
No? Mostert, Frontiers

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets

Other Finalists:

Mitzi Dale, Bryna Means Courage

James 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
K?he Roth, The Last Cod Fish

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Nancy Huston, Cantique des plaines

Other Finalists:

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

Poetry

Winner:

Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange

Other Finalists:

Denise Boucher, Grandeur nature
Roger Des Roches, La R?lit?/em>
Madeleine Gagnon, La Terre est remplie de langage
Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de Prague

Drama
Winner:
Daniel Danis, Celle-l?/em>

Other Finalists:
Jasmine Dub? Petit Monstre
Gilbert Dupuis, Kushapatshikan

Non-Fiction
Winner:
Fran?is Par? Les Litt?atures de l'exigu??/em>

Other Finalists:
L?n Dion, Qu?ec 1945-2000 : Les intellectuels et le temps de Duplessis
Maurice Lemire, Formation de l'imaginaire litt?aire au Qu?ec 1764-1867
Jean Terrasse, De Mentor ?Orph?
Andr? Yanacopoulo, Hans Selye ou la Cath?rale du stress

Children's Literature - Text
Winner:
Mich?e 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:
St?hane 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
Fran?is Vaillancourt, Le Premier Voyage de Monsieur Patapoum

Translation (from English to French)
Winner:
Marie Jos?Th?iault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois

Other Finalists:
Herv?Juste, Histoire de la s?urit?sociale au Canada
Charlotte Melan?n, Grandeur et mis?e de la modernit?/em>

Other Governor General's Awards:
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