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1990 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10000 and a specially bound edition of his or her book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Contents

Fiction

Winner:

  • Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
  • Other Finalists:

  • Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café
  • Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth
  • Leslie Hall Pinder, On Double Tracks
  • Diane Schoemperlen, Man of My Dreams
  • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Margaret Avison, No Time
  • Other Finalists:

  • Dionne Brand, No Language Is Neutral
  • Patrick Lane, Winter
  • Drama

    Winner:

  • Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
  • Other Finalists:

  • Audrey Butler, Black Friday?
  • John Mighton, Scientific Americans
  • George F. Walker, Love and Anger
  • Non-fiction

    Winner:

  • Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times
  • Other Finalists:

  • Timothy Findley, Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook
  • Eugene Forsey, A Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene Forsey
  • Ron Graham, God's Dominion: A Sceptic's Quest
  • James King, The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read
  • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Michael Bedard, Redwork
  • Other Finalists:

  • Jan Andrews, The Auction
  • Brian Doyle, Covered Bridge
  • Welwyn Wilton Katz, Whale Singer
  • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy
  • Other Finalists:

  • Warabé Aska, Seasons
  • Frances Tyrrell, The Huron Carol
  • Translation (from French to English)

    Winner:

  • Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence
  • Other Finalists:

  • Patricia Claxton, Letters to Bernadette
  • Sheila Fischman, Benito
  • Anthony Martin-Sperry, Charlevoix: Two Centuries at Murray Bay
  • Susan Usher, Community Care and Participatory Research
  • Fiction

    Winner:

  • Gérald Tougas, La Mauvaise foi
  • Other Finalists:

  • Louis Lefebvre, Le Collier d'Hurracan
  • Michèle Mailhot, Le Passé composé
  • Jean Marcel, Jérôme ou de la traduction
  • France Vézina, Osther, le chat criblé d'étoiles
  • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Jean-Paul Daoust, Les Cendres bleues
  • Other Finalists:

  • Geneviève Amyot, Corps d'atelier
  • André Brochu, Dans les chances de l'air
  • Denise Desautels, Leçons de Venise
  • Joël Des Rosiers, Tribu
  • Drama

    Winner:

  • Jovette Marchessault, Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr
  • Other Finalists:

  • René-Daniel Dubois, Le Troisième fils du professeur Yourolov
  • Anne Hébert, L'Île de la Demoiselle
  • Non-fiction

    Winner:

  • Jean-François Lisée, Dans l'oeil de l'aigle
  • Other Finalists:

  • Gérard Bergeron, Petit traité de l'État de France'
  • Martin Blais, L'Autre Thomas d'Aquin
  • Daniel Latouche, Le Bazar
  • Laurent-Michel Vacher, L'Empire du moderne
  • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Christiane Duchesne, La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic
  • Other Finalists:

  • José Fréchette, L'Automne à 15 ans
  • Philippe Gauthier, L'Héritage de Qader
  • Johanne Massé, Le Passé en péril
  • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Pierre Pratt, Les Fantaisies de l'oncle Henri
  • Other Finalists:

  • Mireille Levert, Jérémie et Mme Ming,
  • Stéphane Poulin, Les Amours de ma mère,
  • Translation (from English to French)

    Winner:

  • Charlotte et Robert Melançon, Le Second rouleau
  • Other Finalists:

  • Claire Dupond, Lettres à un ami québécois
  • Ivan Steenhout, Onyx John
  • References

    1990 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia