1991 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1991 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada.[1] The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
Non-fiction Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
Poetry Don McKay, Night Field
Drama Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar
Children's literature Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks
Children's illustration Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says Yes
French to English translation Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (Bernard Dupriez, Gradus : Les procédés littéraires)

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction André Brochu, La croix du Nord
  • 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
Non-fiction Bernard Arcand, Le Jaguar et le Tamanoir
  • 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
Poetry Madeleine Gagnon, Chant pour un Québec lointain
Drama Gilbert Dupuis, Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri
Children's literature François Gravel, Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine
Children's illustration Sheldon Cohen, Un champion
English to French translation Jean-Paul Sainte-Marie and Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan, Les Enfants d'Aataentsic: l'histoire du peuple huron (Bruce Trigger, The Children of Aataentsic: A History of the Huron People to 1660)

References
  1. "First novel earns top literary honor". Windsor Star, December 4, 1991.
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