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 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"