Each winner of the 1993 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 administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
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“No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.”
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