1993 Governor General's Awards

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.

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
• 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

French Language

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 Josée Thériault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois

Other Finalists:

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