1991 Governor General's Awards

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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 Blue ribbon Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past
Poetry Blue ribbon Don McKay, Night Field
Drama Blue ribbon Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar
Children's literature Blue ribbon Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says Yes
French to English translation Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon André Brochu, La croix du Nord
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Madeleine Gagnon, Chant pour un Québec lointain
Drama Blue ribbon Gilbert Dupuis, Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri
Children's literature Blue ribbon François Gravel, Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Sheldon Cohen, Un champion
English to French translation Blue ribbon 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.