1991 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1991 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 administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey

Other Finalists:

• Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
• Don Dickinson[?], Blue Husbands
• Douglas Glover[?], A Guide to Animal Behaviour
• Terry Griggs[?], Quickening

Poetry

Winner:

• Don McKay[?], Night Field

Other Finalists:

• Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder
• Judith Fitzgerald[?], Rapturous Chronicles
• Patrick Lane[?], Mortal Remains
• Anne Michaels[?], Miner's Pond

Drama

Winner:

• Joan MacLeod[?], Amigo's Blue Guitar

Other Finalists:

• Sally Clark[?], The Trial of Judith K. Sally Clark[?]
• Don Druick[?], Where is Kabuki? Don Druick[?]
• Linda Griffiths[?], The Darling Family
• Daniel David Moses[?], Coyote City

Non-Fiction

Winner:

• Robert Hunter [?] and Robert Calihoo[?], Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past

Other Finalists:

• Northrop Frye, Words With Power
• Kristjana Gunnars[?], Zero Hour
• D.L. MacDonald[?], Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre"
• Rosemary Sullivan[?], By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Sarah Ellis[?], Pick-Up Sticks

Other Finalists:

• Martha Brooks[?], Two Moons in August
• Roch Carrier, A Happy New Year's Day
• Jean Little[?], Stars Come Out Within
• Monty Reid[?], The Last Great Dinosaurs

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Joanne Fitzgerald[?], Doctor Kiss Says Yes

Other Finalists:

• Kady MacDonald Denton[?], The Travelling Musicians
• Michèle Lemieux[?], Peter and the Wolf
• Gilles Pelletier[?], A Happy New Year's Day
• Jacquelinne White[?], Coyote Winter

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:

• Albert W. Halsall[?], A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z

Other Finalists:

• Linda Gaboriau[?], Lilies or the Revival of a Romantic Drama
• Peter Keating[?], Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada
• Patricia Smart[?] and Dorothy Howard[?], The Diary of André Laurendeau

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

• André Brochu[?], La croix du Nord

Other Finalists:

• Flora Balzano[?], Soigne ta chute
• Georges-Hébert Germain[?] , Christophe Colomb: Naufrage sur les côtes du paradis
• Hans-Jürgen Greif[?], L'Autre Pandore
• Hélène Rioux[?], Les Miroirs d'Éléonore

Poetry

Winner:

• Madeleine Gagnon[?], Chant pour un Québec lointain

Other Finalists:

• Claude Beausoleil[?], Une certaine fin de siècle
• François Charron[?], L'Intraduisible amour
• Herménégilde Chiasson[?], Vous
• Rachel Leclerc[?] Les vies frontalières

Drama

Winner:

• Gilbert Dupuis[?], Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri

Other Finalists:

• Victor-Lévy Beaulieu[?], La maison cassée
• Michel Marc Bouchard[?], L'Histoire de l'oie
• Dominic Champagne[?], La répétition
• Suzanne Lebeau[?], Conte du jour et de la nuit

Non-Fiction

Winner:

• Bernard Arcand[?], Le Jaguar et le Tamanoir

Other Finalists:

• Betty Bednarski[?], Autour de Ferron : littérature, traduction, altérité
• Guy Bourgeault[?], L'Éthique et le droit : face aux nouvelles technologies biomédicales
• Jacques Jaffelin[?], Le Promeneur d'Einstein
• Robert Major[?], Jean Rivard ou l'art de réussir: idéologies et utopie dans l'oeuvre d'Antoine Gérin-Lajoie

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• François Gravel[?], Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine

Other Finalists:

• Ginette Anfousse[?], Un terrible secret
• Johanne Mercier[?], L'Été des autres
• Daniel Sernine[?], Quatre destins

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Sheldon Cohen[?], Un champion

Other Finalist:

• Stéphane Poulin[?], Un voyage pour deux : contes et mensonges de mon enfance

Translation (from English to French)

Winner:

• Jean-Paul Sainte-Marie[?] and Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan[?], Les Enfants d'Aataentsic: l'histoire du peuple huron

Other Finalists:

• Jean-Antonin Billard[?] and Christine Le Boeuf[?], Orages électriques
• Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan[?], Le Canada au temps des aventuriers
• Michèle Marineau[?], Sur le rivage
• Colette Tonge[?], Un heureux canular

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