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

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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

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Category Winner Nominated
Fiction   André Brochu, La croix du Nord
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

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