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
Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts
Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...

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Fiction

Winner:
  • Rohinton Mistry
    Rohinton Mistry
    Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai, Zoroastrian and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate .-Biography:Rohinton Mistry was...

    , Such a Long Journey
    Such a Long Journey (novel)
    Such a Long Journey is a 1991 novel by Rohinton Mistry. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won several other awards. In 2010 the book made headlines when it was withdrawn from the University of Mumbai's English syllabus after complaints from the family of the Hindu nationalist politician...



Other Finalists:
  • Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Atwood
    Margaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...

    , Wilderness Tips
    Wilderness Tips (book)
    Wilderness Tips is a book of short stories by Margaret Atwood, published in 1991 by McClelland and Stewart. It was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Certain of the stories were previously published in The New Yorker, Saturday Night, Playboy, Harper's and Vogue...

  • Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
  • Douglas Glover
    Douglas Glover (writer)
    Douglas Glover BA, M.Litt., MFA is a Canadian writer. He was raised on his family's tobacco farm just outside Waterford, Ontario...

    , A Guide to Animal Behaviour
  • Terry Griggs
    Terry Griggs
    Terry Griggs is a Canadian author. Her book of short stories Quickening was a finalist at the 1991 Governor General's Awards and she won the Marian Engel Award in 2002. She presently lives in Stratford, Ontario, but has occasionally lived on Manitoulin Island since her youth...

    , Quickening

Poetry

Winner:
  • Don McKay
    Don McKay
    Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...

    , Night Field

Other Finalists:
  • Don Domanski
    Don Domanski
    Don Rusu Domanski is a Canadian poet who lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.Domanski was born and raised on Cape Breton Island. Published and reviewed internationally, his work has been translated into Czechoslovakian, Portuguese, and Spanish...

    , Wolf-Ladder
  • Judith Fitzgerald
    Judith Fitzgerald
    Judith Ariana Fitzgerald is a Canadian poet and journalist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, she attended York University . The award-winning poet, critic, and cultural commentarian published her first poem October 1970...

    , Rapturous Chronicles
  • Patrick Lane
    Patrick Lane
    Patrick Lane is an award-winning Canadian poet. He has written in several other genres, including essays, short stories, and is the author of the novel Red Dog, Red Dog.-Biography:...

    , Mortal Remains
  • Anne Michaels
    Anne Michaels
    -Background:Anne Michaels was born in Toronto, Ontario, in 1958. Michaels attended Vaughan Road Academy and then later the University of Toronto, where she is an adjunct faculty in the Department of English. Her first book, The Weight of Oranges , a volume of poetry, was awarded the Commonwealth...

    , Miner's Pond

Drama

Winner:
  • Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue Guitar


Other Finalists:
  • Sally Clark
    Sally Clark (playwright)
    Sally Clark is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.-Career:After moving to Toronto in 1973, Sally Clark served as playwright/dramaturge for Theatre Passe Muraille, the Shaw Festival, Nakai Theatre, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre and Nightwood Theatre.Her plays have received two Dora Mavor Moore...

    , The Trial of Judith K.
  • Don Druick, Where is Kabuki? Don Druick
  • Linda Griffiths
    Linda Griffiths
    Linda Griffiths is a Canadian actor and playwright.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Griffiths studied at Dawson College, the National Theatre School for one year, and McGill University....

    , The Darling Family
  • Daniel David Moses
    Daniel David Moses
    Daniel David Moses is a First Nations poet and playwright from Canada.Moses, of Delaware descent, was born in Ohsweken, Ontario, and raised on a farm on the Six Nations of the Grand River. He has an Honours BA from York University and an MFA from the University of British Columbia. Moses was the...

    , Coyote City

Non-fiction

Winner:
  • Robert Hunter
    Robert Hunter (author)
    Robert Hunter was an American sociologist and progressive author.-Early life:Robert Hunter was born on April 10, 1874 at Terre Haute, Indiana the middle of five children born over thirteen years to William Robert and Caroline “Callie” Hunter...

      and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past


Other Finalists:
  • Northrop Frye
    Northrop Frye
    Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....

    , Words With Power
  • Kristjana Gunnars
    Kristjana Gunnars
    Kristjana Gunnars is an Icelandic-Canadian poet and novelist. Her volumes of poetry include Settlement Poems, which focuses on 19th century Icelandic settlers in Manitoba, and One-Eyed Moon Maps.-External links:...

    , Zero Hour
  • D.L. MacDonald, Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre"
  • Rosemary Sullivan
    Rosemary Sullivan
    Rosemary Sullivan is a Canadian poet, biographer, and anthologist.Sullivan was born in the small town of Valois on Lac St. Louis, which is located just outside of Montreal, Quebec. After graduating from St. Thomas high school, she attended McGill University on a scholarship, and earned her...

    , By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
  • Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up Sticks


Other Finalists:
  • Martha Brooks
    Martha Brooks
    Martha Brooks is an award-winning, Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002....

    , Two Moons in August
  • Roch Carrier
    Roch Carrier
    Roch Carrier, OC is a Canadian novelist and author of "contes" . He is among the best known Quebec writers in English Canada....

    , A Happy New Year's Day
  • Jean Little
    Jean Little
    Jean Little is a Canadian author born on January 2, 1932. Her work has mainly consisted of children's literature, but she has also written two autobiographies: Little by Little and Stars Come Out Within. Little has been partially blind since birth as a result of scars on her cornea and is...

    , Stars Come Out Within
  • Monty Reid
    Monty Reid
    -Life:He graduated from the University of Alberta, with an M.A. He lived in Drumheller, Alberta and worked at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, and has worked at the Canadian Museum of Nature since 1999.-Works:* *...

    , The Last Great Dinosaurs

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
  • Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says Yes


Other Finalists:
  • Kady MacDonald Denton
    Kady MacDonald Denton
    Kady MacDonald Denton is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was raised in Toronto...

    , The Travelling Musicians
  • Michèle Lemieux, Peter and the Wolf
  • Gilles Pelletier
    Gilles Pelletier
    Gilles Pelletier, OC is a Canadian actor. He is probably best known for his portrayal as Corporal Jacques Gagnier in the police drama R.C.M.P.. In 1964, he founded the Nouvelle Compagnie théâtrale, a live theatre for youths and served as director for fifteen years...

    , A Happy New Year's Day
  • Jacquelinne White, Coyote Winter

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:
  • Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z


Other Finalists:
  • Linda Gaboriau
    Linda Gaboriau
    Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....

    , 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

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

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
    Herménégilde Chiasson
    -External links:* entry in *...

    , Vous
  • Rachel Leclerc Les vies frontalières

Drama

Winner:
  • Gilbert Dupuis, Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri


Other Finalists:
  • Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
    Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
    Victor-Lévy Beaulieu is a Québécois writer, playwright and editor.Born in Saint-Paul-de-la-Croix, in the area of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Victor-Lévy Beaulieu began primary school at Trois-Pistoles, moving later to Montréal-Nord.He began his public writing career at the Montreal weekly Perspectives,...

    , La maison cassée
  • Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard
    Michel Marc Bouchard is a gay Canadian playwright.Born in Saint-Cœur-de-Marie, Quebec, he studied theatre at the University of Ottawa. Bouchard made his professional playwriting debut in 1983 and since then has written some 25 plays...

    , L'Histoire de l'oie
  • Dominic Champagne, La répétition
  • Suzanne Lebeau, Conte du jour et de la nuit

Non-fiction

Winner:
  • Bernard Arcand
    Bernard Arcand
    Bernard Arcand was a French-Canadian anthropologist. Author and communicator, he was a retired professor of the anthropology department of Laval University....

    , Le Jaguar et le Tamanoir


Other Finalists:
  • 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
    Robert Major
    Robert Benoit Major was a Liberal party member of the Canadian House of Commons. Born in Ottawa, Ontario, he was an administrator by career.-Elected Office:He was elected at the Argenteuil riding in...

    , Jean Rivard ou l'art de réussir: idéologies et utopie dans l'oeuvre d'Antoine Gérin-Lajoie

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
  • François Gravel, Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine


Other Finalists:
  • Ginette Anfousse, Un terrible secret
  • Johanne Mercier, L'Été des autres
  • Daniel Sernine, Quatre destins

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
  • Sheldon Cohen
    Sheldon Cohen
    Sheldon Cohen is the Robert E. Doherty Professor of Psychology at Carnegie Mellon University. He is the director of the Laboratory for the Study of Stress, Immunity and Disease...

    , Un champion


Other Finalist:
  • Stéphane Poulin, Un voyage pour deux : contes et mensonges de mon enfance

Translation (from English to French)

Winner:
  • Jean-Paul Sainte-Marie and Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan, Les Enfants d'Aataentsic: l'histoire du peuple huron


Other Finalists:
  • Jean-Antonin Billard and Christine Le Boeuf, Orages électriques
  • Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan, Le Canada au temps des aventuriers
  • Michèle Marineau, Sur le rivage
  • Colette Tonge, Un heureux canular
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