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Tuesday, October 07, 2008

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.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner: Other Finalists:
  • Philip Kreiner, People Like Us In a Place Like This
  • H.R. Percy, Painted Ladies
  • Susan Swan , The Biggest Modern Woman of the World

Poetry

Winner:
  • David Donnell, Settlements

Other Finalists:
  • Christopher Dewdney, Predators of the Adoration: Selected Poems 1972-82
  • Don McKay, Birding, or Desire
  • Anne Szumigalski, Doctrine of Signatures

Drama

Winner:
  • Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land

Other Finalists:
  • None

Nonfiction

Winner:
  • Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy

Other Finalists:
  • Ken Dryden, The Game
  • H.S. Ferns, Reading from Left to Right: One Man's Political History

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
  • Suzanne Jacob, Laura Laur

Other Finalists:
  • Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, Discours de Samm
  • France Ducasse, Du lieu des voyages
  • Carole Massé, L'Existence
  • Francine Noël, Maryse
  • Suzanne Robert, Vulpera

Poetry

Winner:
  • Suzanne Paradis, Un goût de sel

Other Finalists:
  • Claude Beausoleil, Une certaine fin de siècle: Poésie 1973-1983
  • Hugues Corriveau, Revoir le rouge
  • Denis Vanier, Rejet de prince

Drama

Winner:
  • René Gingras, Syncope

Other Finalists:
  • Michelle Allen, La passion de Juliette
  • René-Daniel Dubois, 26 bis, impasse du Colonel Foisy

Nonfiction

Winner:
  • Maurice Cusson, Le contrôle social du crime

Other Finalists:
  • 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

Other Governor General's Awards:

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