# 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

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | 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 | 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 | 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 | Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas | Daniel MacIvor, House Humans Raymond Storey, The Saints and Apostles David Young, Glenn |
| Children's literature | Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets | Mitzi Dale, Bryna Means Courage James Archibald Houston, Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search Carol Matas, Daniel's Story Shirley Sterling, My Name Is Seepeetza |
| Children's illustration | 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 | D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three | Jane Brierley, The Maerlande Chronicles Sheila Fischman, Following the Summer Linda Gaboriau, The Eye Is an Eagle Käthe Roth, The Last Cod Fish |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Nancy Huston, Cantique des plaines | 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? |
| Non-fiction | 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 | Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange | 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 | Daniel Danis, Celle-là | Jasmine Dubé, Petit Monstre Gilbert Dupuis, Kushapatshikan |
| Children's literature | Michèle Marineau, La Route de Chlifa | Yves Beauchemin, Antoine et Alfred Dominique Demers, Les grands sapins ne meurent pas Raymond Plante, Les Dents de la poule |
| Children's illustration | 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 | Marie José Thériault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois | Hervé Juste, Histoire de la sécurité sociale au Canada Charlotte Melançon, Grandeur et misère de la modernité |