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.

Table of contents

1 English Language

1.1 Fiction
1.2 Poetry
1.3 Drama
1.4 Non-Fiction
1.5 Children's Literature - Text
1.6 Children's Literature - Illustration
1.7 Translation (from French to English)

2 French Language

2.8 Fiction
2.9 Poetry
2.10 Drama
2.11 Non-Fiction
2.12 Children's Literature - Text
2.13 Children's Literature - Illustration
2.14 Translation (from English to French)

3 Other Governor General's Awards:

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
Mich�le 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 Andr� Laurendeau

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Andr� Brochu, La croix du Nord

Other Finalists:

Flora Balzano, Soigne ta chute
Georges-H�bert Germain , Christophe Colomb: Naufrage sur les c�tes du paradis
Hans-J�rgen Greif, L'Autre Pandore
H�l�ne Rioux, Les Miroirs d'�l�onore

Poetry

Winner:

Madeleine Gagnon, Chant pour un Qu�bec lointain

Other Finalists:

Claude Beausoleil, Une certaine fin de si�cle
Fran�ois Charron, L'Intraduisible amour
Herm�n�gilde Chiasson, Vous
Rachel Leclerc Les vies frontali�res

Drama

Winner:

Gilbert Dupuis, Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague pr�s du m�tro Berri

Other Finalists:

Victor-L�vy Beaulieu, La maison cass�e

Michel Marc Bouchard, L'Histoire de l'oie
Dominic Champagne, La r�p�tition
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 : litt�rature, traduction, alt�rit�
Guy Bourgeault, L'�thique et le droit : face aux nouvelles technologies biom�dicales
Jacques Jaffelin, Le Promeneur d'Einstein
Robert Major, Jean Rivard ou l'art de r�ussir: id�ologies et utopie dans l'oeuvre d'Antoine G�rin-Lajoie

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

Fran�ois Gravel, Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine

Other Finalists:

Ginette Anfousse, Un terrible secret
Johanne Mercier, L'�t� des autres
Daniel Sernine, Quatre destins

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

Sheldon Cohen, Un champion

Other Finalist:

St�phane 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 �lectriques
Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan, Le Canada au temps des aventuriers
Mich�le Marineau, Sur le rivage
Colette Tonge, Un heureux canular

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