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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.1 English Language
1.1 Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
- Don Dickinson , Blue Husbands
- Douglas Glover , A Guide to Animal Behaviour
- Terry Griggs , Quickening
1.2 Poetry
Winner:
Other Finalists:
1.3 Drama
Winner:
- Joan MacLeod , Amigo's Blue Guitar
Other Finalists:
- Sally Clark , The Trial of Judith K.
- Don Druick , Where is Kabuki? Don Druick
- Linda Griffiths , The Darling Family
- Daniel David Moses, Coyote City
1.4 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
1.5 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
1.6 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
1.7 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
2 French Language
2.1 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
2.2 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
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