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
Fiction	Carol Shields, The Stone Diaries	Caroline Adderson, Bad Imaginings Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water David Adams Richards, For Those Who Hunt the Wounded Down Carol Windley, Visible Light
Non-fiction	Karen Connelly, Touch the Dragon	Marq de Villiers, The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir Marian Fowler, In a Gilded Cage Jane Jacobs, Systems of Survival Noël Mostert, Frontiers
Poetry	Don Coles, Forests of the Medieval World	Claire Harris, Drawing Down a Daughter Monty Reid, Crawlspace: New and Selected Poems Douglas Burnet Smith, Voices from a Farther Room Patricia Young, More Watery Still
Drama	Guillermo Verdecchia, Fronteras Americanas	Daniel MacIvor, House Humans Raymond Storey, The Saints and Apostles David Young, Glenn
Children's literature	Tim Wynne-Jones, Some of the Kinder Planets	Mitzi Dale, Bryna Means Courage James Archibald Houston, Drifting Snow: An Arctic Search Carol Matas, Daniel's Story Shirley Sterling, My Name Is Seepeetza
Children's illustration	Mireille Levert, Sleep Tight, Mrs. Ming	Scott Cameron, Beethoven Lives Upstairs Marc Mongeau, There Were Monkeys in My Kitchen! Russ Willms, Brewster Rooster Leo Yerxa, Last Leaf First Snowflake to Fall
French to English translation	D. G. Jones, Categorics One, Two and Three	Jane Brierley, The Maerlande Chronicles Sheila Fischman, Following the Summer Linda Gaboriau, The Eye Is an Eagle Käthe Roth, The Last Cod Fish

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Nancy Huston, Cantique des plaines	Esther Croft, Au commencement était le froid Robert Lalonde, Sept lacs plus au nord Rober Racine, Le Mal de Vienne Pierre Yergeau, Tu attends la neige, Léonard?
Non-fiction	François Paré, Les Littératures de l'exiguïté	Léon Dion, Québec 1945–2000 : Les intellectuels et le temps de Duplessis Maurice Lemire, Formation de l'imaginaire littéraire au Québec 1764–1867 Jean Terrasse, De Mentor à Orphée Andrée Yanacopoulo, Hans Selye ou la Cathédrale du stress
Poetry	Denise Desautels, Le Saut de l'ange	Denise Boucher, Grandeur nature Roger Des Roches, La Réalité Madeleine Gagnon, La Terre est remplie de langage Serge Patrice Thibodeau, Le Cycle de Prague
Drama	Daniel Danis, Celle-là	Jasmine Dubé, Petit Monstre Gilbert Dupuis, Kushapatshikan
Children's literature	Michèle Marineau, La Route de Chlifa	Yves Beauchemin, Antoine et Alfred Dominique Demers, Les grands sapins ne meurent pas Raymond Plante, Les Dents de la poule
Children's illustration	Stéphane Jorisch, Le Monde selon Jean de ...	Francis Back, Des crayons qui trichent Michel Bisson, Thomas et la nuit Sheldon Cohen, Le Plus Long Circuit François Vaillancourt, Le Premier Voyage de Monsieur Patapoum
English to French translation	Marie José Thériault, L'Oeuvre du Gallois	Hervé Juste, Histoire de la sécurité sociale au Canada Charlotte Melançon, Grandeur et misère de la modernité