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:

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• Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries

Other Finalists:

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• 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:

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• Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World

Other Finalists:

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• 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:

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• Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas

Other Finalists:

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• Daniel MacIvor, House Humans
• Raymond Storey, The Saints and Apostles
• David Young, Glenn

Non-Fiction

Winner:

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• Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon

Other Finalists:

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• 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:

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• Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets

Other Finalists:

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• 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:

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• Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming

Other Finalists:

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• 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:

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• D.G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three

Other Finalists:

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• Jane Brierley, The Maerlande Chronicles
• Sheila Fischman, Following the Summer
• Linda Gaboriau, The Eye Is an Eagle
• Käthe Roth, The Last Cod Fish