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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 Blue ribbon Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog
  • Philip Kreiner, People Like Us in a Place Like This
  • H. R. Percy, Painted Ladies
  • Susan Swan, The Biggest Modern Woman of the World
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy
  • Ken Dryden, The Game
  • H. S. Ferns, Reading from Left to Right: One Man's Political History
Poetry Blue ribbon David Donnell, Settlements
Drama Blue ribbon Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land

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

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Suzanne Jacob, Laura Laur
  • Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Discours de Samm
  • France Ducasse, Du lieu des voyages
  • Carole Massé, L'Existence
  • Francine Noël, Maryse
  • Suzanne Robert, Vulpera
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon René Gingras, Syncope

References

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