1993 Governor General's Awards

Canadian literary award

Each winner of the 1993 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada.[1] The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.[2]

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries
  • Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings
  • Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water
  • David Adams Richards, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down
  • Carol Windley, Visible Light
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon
  • 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World
  • 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 Blue ribbon Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas
Children's literature Blue ribbon Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming
  • 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
French to English translation Blue ribbon D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Nancy Huston, Cantique des plaines
Non-fiction Blue ribbon François Paré, Les Littératures de l'exiguïté
  • 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange
Drama Blue ribbon Daniel Danis, Celle-là
Children's literature Blue ribbon Michèle Marineau, La Route de Chlifa
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Stéphane Jorisch, Le Monde selon Jean de ...
  • 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
English to French translation Blue ribbon Marie José Thériault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois
  • Hervé Juste, Histoire de la sécurité sociale au Canada
  • Charlotte Melançon, Grandeur et misère de la modernité

References

  1. ^ "This time, Stone Diaries on top: Governor General's award atones for loss in Booker". Windsor Star, November 17, 1993.
  2. ^ "Shields in running for Governor General Award; Nomination comes just after Booker Prize loss". Halifax Daily News, October 29, 1993.
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