Each winner of the 1991 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada."First novel earns top literary honor". Windsor Star, December 4, 1991. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
English CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction Rohinton Mistry, Such a Long JourneyMargaret Atwood, Wilderness Tips Don Dickinson, Blue Husbands Douglas Glover, A Guide to Animal Behaviour Terry Griggs, Quickening Non-fiction Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo, Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected PastNorthrop 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 Poetry Don McKay, Night FieldDon Domanski, Wolf-Ladder Judith Fitzgerald, Rapturous Chronicles Patrick Lane, Mortal Remains Anne Michaels, Miner's Pond Drama Joan MacLeod, Amigo's Blue GuitarSally Clark, The Trial of Judith K. Don Druick, Where is Kabuki? Linda Griffiths, The Darling Family Daniel David Moses, Coyote City Children's literature Sarah Ellis, Pick-Up SticksMartha 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 illustration Joanne Fitzgerald, Doctor Kiss Says YesKady MacDonald Denton, The Travelling Musicians Michèle Lemieux, Peter and the Wolf Gilles Pelletier, A Happy New Year's Day Jacqueline White, Coyote Winter French to English translation Albert W. Halsall, A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z (Bernard Dupriez, Gradus : Les procédés littéraires)Linda Gaboriau, Lilies, or the Revival of a Romantic Drama (Michel Marc Bouchard, Les feluettes) Peter Keating, Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada (Yves Gingras, Les origines de la recherche scientifique au Canada : le cas des physiciens) Patricia Smart and Dorothy Howard, The Diary of André Laurendeau (André Laurendeau, Journal tenu pendant la Commission royale d’enquête sur le bilinguisme et le biculturalisme)
French CategoryWinnerNominated Fiction André Brochu, La croix du NordFlora 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 Non-fiction Bernard Arcand, Le Jaguar et le TamanoirBetty 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 lointainClaude Beausoleil, Une certaine fin de siècle François Charron, L'Intraduisible amour Herménégilde Chiasson, Vous Rachel Leclerc Les vies frontalières Drama Gilbert Dupuis, Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro BerriVictor-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 Children's literature François Gravel, Deux heures et demie avant JasmineGinette Anfousse, Un terrible secret Johanne Mercier, L'Été des autres Daniel Sernine, Quatre destins Children's illustration Sheldon Cohen, Un championStéphane Poulin, Un voyage pour deux : contes et mensonges de mon enfance 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)Jean Antonin Billard and Christine Le Boeuf, Orages électriques (David Homel, Electrical Storms) Brigitte Chabert Hacikyan, Le Canada au temps des aventuriers (Robert McGhee, Canada Rediscovered) Michèle Marineau, Sur le rivage (Lucy Maud Montgomery, Along the Shore) Colette Tonge, Un heureux canular (Robertson Davies, Leaven of Malice)
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