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1993 Governor General's Awards

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
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

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:

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:

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

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

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

Other Governor General's Awards:

2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987 - 1986 - 1985 - 1984 - 1983 - 1982 - 1981 - 1980 - 1979 - 1978 - 1977 - 1976 - 1975 - 1974 - 1973 - 1972 - 1971 - 1970 - 1969 - 1968 - 1967 - 1966 - 1965 - 1964 - 1963 - 1962 - 1961 - 1960 - 1959 - 1958 - 1957 - 1956 - 1955 - 1954 - 1953 - 1952 - 1951 - 1950 - 1949 - 1948 - 1947 - 1946 - 1945 - 1944 - 1943 - 1942 - 1941 - 1940 - 1939 - 1938 - 1937 - 1936


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