1981 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1981 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The 1981 awards were the first time that separate awards were presented for poetry and drama, which had previously competed in a single "poetry or drama" category.

English

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories

No advance shortlist was released for this category.[1]

Non-fiction   George Calef, Caribou and the Barren-Lands
Poetry   F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott
Drama   Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations

French

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   Denys Chabot, La province lunaire
Non-fiction   Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, L'échappée des discours de l'oeil
Poetry   Michel Beaulieu, Visages

No advance shortlist was released for this category.

Drama   Marie Laberge, C'était avant la guerre à l'anse à Gilles

References

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  1. ^ "Kareda lands Gallant play for Tarragon". Toronto Star, April 29, 1982.