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.
English Language
Fiction
Winner:
*Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long Journey
Other Finalists:
*Margaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips
*Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands
*Douglas Glover, A Guide to Animal Behaviour
*Terry Griggs, Quickening
Poetry
Winner:
*Don McKay, Night Field
Other Finalists:
*Don Domanski, Wolf-Ladder
*Judith Fitzgerald, Rapturous Chronicles
*Patrick Lane, Mortal Remains
*Anne Michaels, Miner's Pond
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
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
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
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
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
French Language
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, 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, La maison cassée
*Michel Marc Bouchard, L'Histoire de l'oie
*Dominic Champagne, La répétition
*Suzanne Lebeau, Conte du jour et de la nuit
Non-fiction
Winner:
*Bernard Arcand, 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, 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, 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
Other Governor General's Awards:
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