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 Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Rudy Wiebe, A Discovery of Strangers

Other Finalists:

• Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
• Donna McFarlane, Division of Surgery
• Alice Munro, Open Secrets
• Russell Smith, How Insensitive

Poetry

Winner:

• Robert Hilles, Cantos from a Small Room

Other Finalists:

• Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest
• Polly Fleck, The Chinese Execution
• Monty Reid, Dog Sleeps

Drama

Winner:

• Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth

Other Finalists:

• Joanna McClelland Glass, If We Are Women
• Wendy Lill, All Fall Down
• Bryden MacDonald, Whale Riding Weather

Non-Fiction

Winner:

• John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication

Other Finalists:

• 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

Children's Literature – Text

Winner:

• Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (Lester Publishing)

Other Finalists:

• 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 Literature – Illustration

Winner:

• Murray Kimber, Josepha: A Prairie Boy's Story

Other Finalists:

• Marie Lafrance, La Diablesse and the Baby
• Michèle Lemieux, There Was An Old Man...: A Collection of Limericks
• Laurie McGaw, Polar, the Titanic Bear
• Martin Springett, Who

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:

• Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers

Other Finalists:

• 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 Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Robert Lalonde, Le petit aigle à tête blanche

Other Finalists:

• Réjean Ducharme, Va savoir
• Daniel Poliquin, L'Écureuil noir
• Hélène Rioux, Pense à mon rendez-vous
• Sylvain Trudel, Les Prophètes

Poetry

Winner:

• Fulvio Caccia, Aknos

Other Finalists:

• Marcel Labine, Machines imaginaires
• Rachel Leclerc, Rabatteurs d'étoiles
• Paul Chanel Malenfant, Hommes de profil
• Pierre Ouellet, Vita chiara, villa oscura

Drama

Winner:

• Michel Ouellette, French Town

Other Finalists:

• Michelle Allen, Morgane
• Yvan Bienvenue, Histoires à mourir d'amour
• Claude Poissant, Si tu meurs, je te tue
• Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Cinq études

Non-Fiction

Winner:

• Chantal Saint-Jarre, Du sida

Other Finalists:

• 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

Children's Literature – Text

Winner:

• Suzanne Martel, Une belle journée pour mourir

Other Finalists:

• Marie-Danielle Croteau, Un monde à la dérive
• François Gravel, Klonk

Children's Literature – Illustration

Winner:

• Pierre Pratt, Mon chien est un éléphant

Other Finalists:

• 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

Translation (from English to French)

Winner:

• Jude Des Chênes, Le mythe du sauvage

Other Finalists:

• 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

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