1983 Governor General's Awards

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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.

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English

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Leon Rooke, Shakespeare's Dog
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png Jeffery Williams, Byng of Vimy
Poetry Blueribbon icon.png David Donnell, Settlements
Drama Blueribbon icon.png Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land

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

French

CategoryWinnerNominated
Fiction Blueribbon icon.png Suzanne Jacob, Laura Laur
Non-fiction Blueribbon icon.png 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 Blueribbon icon.png Suzanne Paradis, Un goût de sel
Drama Blueribbon icon.png René Gingras, Syncope

References

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