1983 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1983 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

English

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog
Non-fiction Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy
  • Ken Dryden, The Game
  • H. S. Ferns, Reading from Left to Right: One Man's Political History
Poetry David Donnell, Settlements
Drama Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land

No advance shortlist was released for this category.[1]

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Suzanne Jacob, Laura Laur
Non-fiction Maurice Cusson, Le contrôle social du crime
  • Clermont Dugas, Les régions périphériques: défi au développement du Québec
  • Jacques Michon, Émile Nelligan: les racines du rêve
  • François Rousseau, L'oeuvre de chère en Nouvelle-France. Le régime des malades à l'Hôtel-Dieu de Québec
Poetry Suzanne Paradis, Un goût de sel
  • Claude Beausoleil, Une certaine fin de siècle: Poésie 1973-1983
  • Hugues Corriveau, Revoir le rouge
  • Denis Vanier, Rejet de prince
Drama René Gingras, Syncope

References

  1. ^ "Governor-General's Awards 22 authors named finalists". The Globe and Mail, May 19, 1984.
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