Each winner of the 1993 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. [1] The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. [2]
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries |
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| Non-fiction | Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon |
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| Poetry | Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World |
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| Drama | Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas |
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| Children's literature | Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets |
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| Children's illustration | Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming |
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| French to English translation | D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three |
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| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Nancy Huston, Cantique des plaines |
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| Non-fiction | François Paré, Les Littératures de l'exiguïté |
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| Poetry | Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange |
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| Drama | Daniel Danis, Celle-là |
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| Children's literature | Michèle Marineau, La Route de Chlifa |
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| Children's illustration | Stéphane Jorisch, Le Monde selon Jean de ... |
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| English to French translation | Marie José Thériault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois |
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