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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[edit] English Language

[edit] 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

[edit] Poetry

Winner:

Other Finalists:

[edit] Drama

Winner:

  • Anne Chislett, Quiet in the Land

Other Finalists:

  • None

[edit] Non-fiction

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


[edit] French Language

[edit] Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Drama

Winner:

Other Finalists:

[edit] Non-fiction

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

[edit] Other Governor General's Awards:

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