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{{Short description|Canadian literary award}}
Each winner of the '''1993 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit''' received $10,000 and a medal from the [[Governor General of Canada]].<ref>"This time, Stone Diaries on top: Governor General's award atones for loss in Booker". ''[[Windsor Star]]'', November 17, 1993.</ref> The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the [[Canada Council|Canada Council for the Arts]].<ref>"Shields in running for Governor General Award; Nomination comes just after Booker Prize loss". ''[[Halifax Daily News]]'', October 29, 1993.</ref>

==English==
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Carol Shields]], ''[[The Stone Diaries]]'''''
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*[[Caroline Adderson]], ''Bad Imaginings'' 
*[[Thomas King (novelist)|Thomas King]], ''[[Green Grass, Running Water]]'' 
*[[David Adams Richards]], ''For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down'' 
*[[Carol Windley]], ''Visible Light''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Karen Connelly]], ''Touch the Dragon'''''
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*[[Marq de Villiers]], ''The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir''   	
*[[Marian Fowler]], ''In a Gilded Cage'' 
*[[Jane Jacobs]], ''Systems of Survival''	
*[[Noel Mostert|Noël Mostert]], ''Frontiers''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry|Poetry]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Don Coles]], ''Forests of the Medieval World'''''
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*[[Claire Harris (poet)|Claire Harris]], ''Drawing Down a Daughter'' 
*[[Monty Reid]], ''Crawlspace: New and Selected Poems'' 
*[[Douglas Burnet Smith]], ''Voices from a Farther Room'' 
*[[Patricia Young]], ''More Watery Still''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language drama|Drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Guillermo Verdecchia]], ''Fronteras Americanas'''''
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*[[Daniel MacIvor]], ''House Humans'' 
*[[Raymond Storey]], ''The Saints and Apostles'' 
*[[David Young (playwright)|David Young]], ''Glenn''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language children's literature|Children's literature]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Tim Wynne-Jones]], ''Some of the Kinder Planets'''''
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*[[Mitzi Dale]], ''Bryna Means Courage'' 
*[[James Archibald Houston]], ''Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search'' 
*[[Carol Matas]], ''Daniel's Story'' 
*[[Shirley Sterling]], ''My Name Is Seepeetza''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language children's illustration|Children's illustration]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Mireille Levert]], ''Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming'''''
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*[[Scott Cameron (illustrator)|Scott Cameron]], ''Beethoven Lives Upstairs'' 
*[[Marc Mongeau]], ''There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen!'' 
*[[Russ Willms]], ''Brewster Rooster'' 
*[[Leo Yerxa]], ''Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French to English translation|French to English translation]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[D. G. Jones]], ''Categorics One, Two and Three'''''
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*[[Jane Brierley]], ''The Maerlande Chronicles'' 
*[[Sheila Fischman]], ''Following the Summer'' 
*[[Linda Gaboriau]], ''The Eye Is an Eagle'' 
*[[Käthe Roth]], ''The Last Cod Fish''
|}

==French==
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language fiction|Fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Nancy Huston]], ''Cantique des plaines'''''
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*[[Esther Croft]], ''Au commencement était le froid'' 
*[[Robert Lalonde]], ''Sept lacs plus au nord'' 
*[[Rober Racine]], ''Le Mal de Vienne'' 
*[[Pierre Yergeau]], ''Tu attends la neige, Léonard?''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[François Paré]], ''Les Littératures de l'exiguïté'''''
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*[[Léon Dion]], ''Québec 1945–2000 : Les intellectuels et le temps de Duplessis''  
*[[Maurice Lemire]], ''Formation de l'imaginaire littéraire au Québec 1764–1867''  
*[[Jean Terrasse]], ''De Mentor à Orphée'' 
*[[Andrée Yanacopoulo]], ''Hans Selye ou la Cathédrale du stress''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language poetry|Poetry]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Denise Desautels]], ''Le Saut de l'ange'''''
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*[[Denise Boucher]], ''Grandeur nature'' 
*[[Roger Des Roches]], ''La Réalité'' 
*[[Madeleine Gagnon]], ''La Terre est remplie de langage'' 
*[[Serge Patrice Thibodeau]], ''Le Cycle de Prague''
|-
| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language drama|Drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Daniel Danis]], ''Celle-là'''''
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*[[Jasmine Dubé]], ''Petit Monstre'' 
*[[Gilbert Dupuis]], ''Kushapatshikan''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language children's literature|Children's literature]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Michèle Marineau]], ''La Route de Chlifa'''''
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*[[Yves Beauchemin]], ''Antoine et Alfred'' 
*[[Dominique Demers]], ''Les grands sapins ne meurent pas'' 
*[[Raymond Plante]], ''Les Dents de la poule''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for French-language children's illustration|Children's illustration]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Stéphane Jorisch]], ''Le Monde selon Jean de ...'''''
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*[[Francis Back]], ''Des crayons qui trichent'' 
*[[Michel Bisson]], ''Thomas et la nuit'' 
*[[Sheldon Cohen (animator)|Sheldon Cohen]], ''Le Plus Long Circuit'' 
*François Vaillancourt, ''Le Premier Voyage de  Monsieur Patapoum''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English to French translation|English to French translation]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Marie José Thériault]], ''L'Oeuvre du Gallois'''''
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*[[Hervé Juste]], ''Histoire de la sécurité sociale au Canada''
*[[Charlotte Melançon]], ''Grandeur et misère de la modernité''
|}

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