# 1994 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1994 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 set up by the Canada Council for the Arts.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers | Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride Donna McFarlane, Division of Surgery Alice Munro, Open Secrets Russell Smith, How Insensitive |
| Non-fiction | John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication | Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children: Portrait of a Family Joan Haggerty, The Invitation: A Memoir of Family Love and Reconciliation Peter Larisey, Light for a Cold Land: Lawren Harris's Work and Life-An Interpretation |
| Poetry | Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room | Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest Polly Fleck, The Chinese Execution Monty Reid, Dog Sleeps |
| Drama | Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth | Joanna McClelland Glass, If We Are Women Wendy Lill, All Fall Down Bryden MacDonald, Whale Riding Weather |
| Children's literature | Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me | Sarah Ellis, Out of the Blue Carol Matas, The Burning Time Jim McGugan, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story Ken Roberts, Past Tense |
| Children's illustration | Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story | Marie Lafrance, La Diablesse and the Baby Michèle Lemieux, There Was An Old Man...: A Collection of Limericks Laurie McGaw, Polar the Titanic Bear |
| French to English translation | Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers | Patricia Claxton, Tchipayuk or The Way of the Wolf Sheila Fischman, The Sound of Living Things David Homel, An Aroma of Coffee Shelley Tepperman, Playing Bare |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Robert Lalonde, Le petit aigle à tête blanche | Réjean Ducharme, Va savoir Daniel Poliquin, L'Écureuil noir Hélène Rioux, Pense à mon rendez-vous Sylvain Trudel, Les Prophètes |
| Non-fiction | Chantal Saint-Jarre, Du SIDA | Fernand Dumont, Genèse de la société québécoise Jean Lamarre, Le devenir de la nation québécoise Ginette Pelland, La peur des mots Georges E. Sioui, Les Wendats : une civilisation méconnue |
| Poetry | Fulvio Caccia, Aknos | Marcel Labine, Machines imaginaires Rachel Leclerc, Rabatteurs d'étoiles Paul Chanel Malenfant, Hommes de profil Pierre Ouellet, Vita chiara, villa oscura |
| Drama | Michel Ouellette, French Town | Michelle Allen, Morgane Yvan Bienvenue, Histoires à mourir d'amour Claude Poissant, Si tu meurs, je te tue Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Cinq études |
| Children's literature | Suzanne Martel, Une belle journée pour mourir | Marie-Danielle Croteau, Un monde à la dérive François Gravel, Klonk |
| Children's illustration | Pierre Pratt, Mon chien est un éléphant | Sylvie Deronzier, Tartarin et le lion Stéphane Poulin, Le parc aux sortilèges Rémy Simard, Monsieur noir et blanc Gilles Tibo, Simon et la plume perdue |
| English to French translation | Jude Des Chênes, Le mythe du sauvage | Claire Dupond and Hervé Juste, Les spécialistes des sciences sociales et la politique au Canada Michèle Marineau, Au-delà des ténèbres Normand Paiement and Hervé Juste, Les Géants des ordures Daniel Poliquin, Le récit de voyage en Nouvelle – France de l'abbé peintre Hugues Pommier |