Each winner of the 1994 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges set up by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Bernard Werber is a French science fiction writer, active since the 1990s. He is chiefly recognized for having written the trilogy Les Fourmis, the only one of his novels to have been published in English. This series weaves together philosophy, spirituality, science fiction, thriller, science, mythology and consciousness.
Michel Saloff Coste is an artist and professor at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales, and co-founder of the Club of Budapest France, an international non-profit organisation dedicated to leading citizens into discussing complex global issues.
Robert Goldman is a French songwriter. He was born in Paris, the son of Alter Mojze Goldman and Ruth Ambrunn who were Jewish Resistance fighters during the Second World War. He is the younger brother of Jean-Jacques Goldman and half-brother of Pierre Goldman.
Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology. He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS. Luminet is a member of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and is a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He is also a writer and poet.
Numa Sadoul (born 7 May 1947, Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa is a French writer, actor, and director, who has been a resident of France since 1966.
Laurent Genefort is a French science fiction writer.
Michel Creton is a French actor.
Michel Droit was a French novelist and journalist. He was the father of the photographer Éric Droit (1954–2007).
Serge Brunier is a French photographer, reporter, and writer who has specialized in popular depictions of astronomical subjects.
Charles Le Quintrec was a French poet. He was born in Plescop and died in Lorient in Brittany.
François-Alexandre Galepides, known by the stage name Moustache, was a French actor and jazz drummer of Greek descent. He was born 14 February 1929 in Paris and died 25 March 1987 in Arpajon in a car accident.
Born in 1973, near Paris, France, multimedia artist Stéphane Blanquet is a prolific figure in the contemporary art scene since the end of the 1980s.
Fleuve Noir Anticipation was a science fiction collection by Fleuve Noir, a French publishing company, which encompassed 2001 novels published from 1951 to 1997. Aimed at a broad audience, Fleuve Noir Anticipation was originally conceived to publish books addressing the rumored rise of technocracy in the French Fourth Republic; but later focused on space opera and topics of popular interest.
Michel Duran, pen name of Michel Joseph Durand was a French actor, author, dialoguist and screenwriter. He was the son of Michel Jacques Durand and Marie Exbrayat.
David Haziot is a French writer. Holder of a Master of Philosophy at the Sorbonne on the cinema of Sergei Eisenstein, he then turned to fiction, biography, and essay. He obtained a prize of the Académie Française for his biography of Vincent van Gogh and the Prix Goncourt de la Biographie for his latest work about the Rouart family.
Sophie Adriansen is a French writer, a member of the Société des gens de lettres and of the "Charte des auteurs et des illustrateurs jeunesse".
Jean-Pierre Guillet is a French-Canadian writer born in Iberville, Quebec, in 1953.
Underground is a Canadian drama film, directed by Sophie Dupuis and released in 2020. Produced by the Montreal based company Bravo Charlie, the film stars Joakim Robillard as Maxime, a troubled miner in Val-d’Or, Quebec, who must attempt to rescue his coworkers when an explosion happens inside the mine.
Sylvie Vauclair is a French astrophysicist, and professor emeritus, where she taught for more than 30 years. She also taught for a decade at the Paris Diderot University. She has served as president of the Société Française d'Astronomie et d'Astrophysique.
