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
Poetry David Donnell, Settlements
Drama Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land

No advance shortlist was released for this category.

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
Drama René Gingras, Syncope

References

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