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1991 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1991 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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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.
  • Don Druick, Where is Kabuki?
  • 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

    • 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

    • References

    1991 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia
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