1994 Governor General's Awards

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

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

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

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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