1993 Governor General's Awards
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Each winner of the 1993 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada
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Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...
. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
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Fiction
Winner:- Carol ShieldsCarol ShieldsCarol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.-Biography:Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois...
, The Stone DiariesThe Stone DiariesThe Stone Diaries is a 1993 award-winning novel by Carol Shields.It is the fictional autobiography about the life of Daisy Goodwill Flett, a seemingly ordinary woman whose life is marked by death and loss from the beginning, when her mother dies during childbirth...
Other Finalists:
- Caroline AddersonCaroline AddersonCaroline Adderson is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. She has published three novels, two short story collections and two books for young readers.-Personal life and career:...
, Bad Imaginings - Thomas King, Green Grass, Running WaterGreen Grass, Running WaterGreen Grass, Running Water is a 1993 novel by Native-Canadian and Greek writer Thomas King. Set in a contemporary First Nations Blackfoot community in Alberta, Canada, the novel gained attention due to its unique use of structure, narrative, and the fusion of oral and written literary traditions...
- David Adams RichardsDavid Adams RichardsDavid Adams Richards, CM, ONB is a Canadian novelist, essayist, screenwriter and poet.Born in Newcastle, New Brunswick, Richards left St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, three credits shy of completing a B.A.. Richards has been a writer-in-residence at various universities and...
, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down - Carol WindleyCarol WindleyCarol Ann Windley is a Canadian short story writer and novelist.Born in Tofino, British Columbia and raised in British Columbia and Alberta, Windley's debut short story collection, Visible Light won the 1993 Bumbershoot Award, and was nominated for the 1993 Governor General's Award for English...
, Visible Light
Poetry
Winner:- Don ColesDon ColesDonald L. Coles, also known as Don Coles, is a Canadian poet and a novelist. Coles won the 1993 Governor General's Award for English poetry for his collection Forests of the Medieval World and the Trillium Book Award in 2000 for his collection Kurgan.Don Coles was born on April 12, 1927, in...
, Forests of the Medieval World
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- Claire HarrisClaire HarrisFor the science fiction author, see Clare Winger HarrisClaire Harris is a Canadian poet who lives in Calgary, Alberta....
, Drawing Down a Daughter - Monty ReidMonty Reid-Life:He graduated from the University of Alberta, with an M.A. He lived in Drumheller, Alberta and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and has worked at the Canadian Museum of Nature since 1999.-Works:* *...
, Crawlspace: New and Selected Poems - Douglas Burnet SmithDouglas Burnet SmithDouglas Burnet Smith is a Canadian poet. He is the author of twelve volumes of poetry. His Voices from a Farther Room was nominated for the Governor General's Award, the most prestigious literary award in Canada. In addition to winning numerous poetry awards, in 1989 Mr. Smith won The Malahat...
, Voices from a Farther Room - Patricia YoungPatricia YoungPatricia Young is an Canadian poet, and short story writer.-Awards:* 1993 Governor General's Award nominee for More Watery Still* 2000 Governor General's Award nominee for Ruin & Beauty.* 1990 Pat Lowther Award...
, More Watery Still
Drama
Winner:- Guillermo VerdecchiaGuillermo VerdecchiaGuillermo Verdecchia is a Canadian theatre artist.Verdecchia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and came to Canada at the age of two. He was raised in Kitchener, Ontario...
, Fronteras Americanas
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- Daniel MacIvorDaniel MacIvorDaniel MacIvor is a Canadian actor, playwright, theatre director and film director. He was born in Sydney, Nova Scotia and educated at Dalhousie University in Halifax, and then at George Brown College in Toronto, Ontario....
, House Humans - Raymond Storey, The Saints and Apostles
- David Young, Glenn
Non-Fiction
Winner:- Karen ConnellyKaren ConnellyKaren Marie Connelly is a Canadian writer and poet who has written extensively about her experiences living in Greece, Thailand and Canada.-Life and work:...
, Touch the Dragon
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- Marq de VilliersMarq de VilliersMarq de Villiers, CM is an award-winning Canadian writer and journalist. He now chiefly writes non-fiction books on scientific topics. In the past he also worked as a magazine editor and foreign correspondent.-Biography:...
, The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir - Marian Fowler, In a Gilded Cage
- Jane JacobsJane JacobsJane Jacobs, was an American-Canadian writer and activist with primary interest in communities and urban planning and decay. She is best known for The Death and Life of Great American Cities , a powerful critique of the urban renewal policies of the 1950s in the United States...
, Systems of Survival - Noël Mostert, Frontiers
Children's Literature - Text
Winner:- Tim Wynne-JonesTim Wynne-JonesTim Wynne-Jones is an English–Canadian author of children's literature, including picture books and novels for children and young adults, novels for adults, radio dramas, songs for the CBC/Jim Henson production Fraggle Rock, as well as a children's musical and an opera libretto.-Biography:Born...
, Some of the Kinder Planets
Other Finalists:
- Mitzi Dale, Bryna Means Courage
- James Archibald Houston, Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search
- Carol MatasCarol MatasCarol Matas is a Canadian children's writer who lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.She has written many books such as*Cloning Miranda*The Second Clone*The Dark Clone*After the War*The Freak*Turned Away...
, Daniel's Story - Shirley Sterling, My Name Is Seepeetza
Children's Literature - Illustration
Winner:- Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming
Other Finalists:
- Scott CameronScott CameronScott Cameron is an Olympic swimmer from New Zealand. He swam for New Zealand at the 1996 Olympics.Alongside Trent Bray, John Davis and Danyon Loader he was part of the bronze medal winning 4x200m freestyle relay team at the 1998 Commonwealth Games.-References:...
, 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
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- Jane Brierley, The Maerlande Chronicles
- Sheila FischmanSheila FischmanSheila Leah Fischman, CM is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature....
, Following the Summer - Linda GaboriauLinda GaboriauLinda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....
, The Eye Is an Eagle - Käthe Roth, The Last Cod Fish
Fiction
Winner:- Nancy HustonNancy HustonNancy Louise Huston, OC is a Canadian-born novelist and essayist who writes primarily in French and translates her own works into English.-Biography:...
, 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 YergeauPierre YergeauPierre Yergeau is a Canadian novelist.Born in Abitibi, Quebec, Yergeau was educated at Concordia University and the Université de Montréal. He has twice been a finalist for the Governor General's Award in French language fiction...
, 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
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- Jasmine Dubé, Petit Monstre
- Gilbert Dupuis, Kushapatshikan
Non-Fiction
Winner:- François ParéFrançois ParéFrançois-Rosaire Paré BA, PhD is a French Canadian author and academic specialising in French literature.Paré lived in Montreal during his youth. After earning his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Université de Montréal, he pursued further studies in Buffalo, New York at SUNY...
, Les Littératures de l'exiguïté
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- Léon DionLéon DionLéon Dion, OC, OQ was a Quebec political scientist.Dion was born in Saint-Arsène de Rivière-du-Loup. He founded the department of political science at Université Laval with Gérard Bergeron and Maurice Tremblay in 1954....
, 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
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- Yves BeaucheminYves BeaucheminYves Beauchemin is a Quebec novelist.Born in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Beauchemin received his degree in French literature and art history at the Université de Montréal in 1965. He taught literature at the Collège Garneau and Université Laval...
, 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 CohenSheldon CohenSheldon Cohen is the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Stress, Immunity and Disease...
, Le Plus Long Circuit - François VaillancourtFrançois VaillancourtFrançois Vaillancourt is a Montreal-based Canadian painter.François Vaillancourt has a formal training in fine arts and graphic design. After 15 years working as an art director in various advertising agencies, he started painting again...
, 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