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"

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"