Each winner of the 1994 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 dollars 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.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists: 
Poetry

Winner:

Other Finalists:

  • Robin Blaser, The Holy Forest 

  • Polly Fleck, The Chinese Execution 

  • Monty Reid, Dog Sleeps 
    

Drama

Winner:

  • Morris Panych, The Ends of the Earth
    

Other Finalists:

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • John A. Livingston, Rogue Primate: An Exploration of Human Domestication
    

Other Finalists:

  • Sharon Butala, The Perfection of the Morning: An Apprenticeship in Nature 

  • Denise Chong, The Concubine's Children: Portrait of a Family 

  • Joan Haggerty, The Invitation:  A Memoir of Family Love and Reconciliation 

  • Peter Larisey, Light for a Cold Land:  Lawren Harris's Work and Life-An Interpretation 
    

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Julie Johnston, Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me 
    

Other Finalists:

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Murray Kimber, Josepha:  A Prairie Boy's Story
    

Other Finalists:

  • Marie Lafrance, La Diablesse and the Baby 

  • Michèle Lemieux, There Was An Old Man...: A Collection of Limericks 

  • Laurie McGaw, Polar the Titanic Bear 

  • Martin Springett, Who	
    

Translation  (from French to English)

Winner:

  • Donald Winkler, The Lyric Generation: The Life and Times of the Baby Boomers 
    

Other Finalists:

  • Patricia Claxton, Tchipayuk or The Way of the Wolf   		

  • Sheila Fischman, The Sound of Living Things 

  • David Homel, An Aroma of Coffee 

  • Shelley Tepperman, Playing Bare 
    



French Language



Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:

Poetry

Winner:

  • Fulvio Caccia, Aknos
    

Other Finalists:

  • Marcel Labine, Machines imaginaires 

  • Rachel Leclerc, Rabatteurs d'étoiles

  • Paul Chanel Malenfant, Hommes de profil 

  • Pierre Ouellet, Vita chiara, villa oscura 
    

Drama

Winner:

  • Michel Ouellette, French Town 
    

Other Finalists:

  • Michelle Allen, Morgane 

  • Yvan Bienvenue, Histoires à mourir d'amour 

  • Claude Poissant, Si tu meurs, je te tue 

  • Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Cinq études 
    

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • Chantal Saint-Jarre, Du sida
    

Other Finalists:

  • Fernand Dumont, Genèse de la société québécoise 

  • Jean Lamarre, Le devenir de la nation québécoise 

  • Ginette Pelland, La peur des mots 

  • Georges E. Sioui, Les Wendats : une civilisation méconnue 	  		
    

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Suzanne Martel, Une belle journée pour mourir
    

Other Finalists:

  • Marie-Danielle Croteau, Un monde à la dérive 

  • François Gravel, Klonk 
    

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Pierre Pratt, Mon chien est un éléphant 
    

Other Finalists:

  • Sylvie Deronzier, Tartarin et le lion	

  • Stéphane Poulin, Le parc aux sortilèges 

  • Rémy Simard, Monsieur noir et blanc  

  • Gilles Tibo, Simon et la plume perdue 

	 

Translation  (from English to French)

Winner:

  • Jude Des Chênes, Le mythe du sauvage
    

Other Finalists:
	  


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