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1991 Governor General's Awards

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
• 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:

• 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 Northrop Frye, Words With Power
• Kristjana Gunnars, Zero Hour
• Martha Brooks, Two Moons in August
• Roch Carrier, A Happy New Year's Day
• Jean Little, Stars Come Out Within
• Kady MacDonald Denton, The Travelling Musicians
• Michèle Lemieux, Peter and the Wolf
• Gilles Pelletier, A Happy New Year's Day
• Linda Gaboriau, Lilies or the Revival of a Romantic Drama
• Peter Keating, Physics and the Rise of Scientific Research in Canada
• Patricia Smart and Flora Balzano, Soigne ta chute
• Hans-Jürgen Greif, L'Autre Pandore
• Claude Beausoleil, Une certaine fin de siècle
• François Charron, L'Intraduisible amour
• Herménégilde Chiasson, Vous
• Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, La maison cassée
• Michel Marc Bouchard, L'Histoire de l'oie
• Dominic Champagne, La répétition
• Jacques Jaffelin, Le Promeneur d'Einstein
• Ginette Anfousse, Un terrible secret
• Johanne Mercier, L'Été des autres
• Jean-Paul Sainte-Marie and 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:

2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987 - 1986 - 1985 - 1984 - 1983 - 1982 - 1981 - 1980 - 1979 - 1978 - 1977 - 1976 - 1975 - 1974 - 1973 - 1972 - 1971 - 1970 - 1969 - 1968 - 1967 - 1966 - 1965 - 1964 - 1963 - 1962 - 1961 - 1960 - 1959 - 1958 - 1957 - 1956 - 1955 - 1954 - 1953 - 1952 - 1951 - 1950 - 1949 - 1948 - 1947 - 1946 - 1945 - 1944 - 1943 - 1942 - 1941 - 1940 - 1939 - 1938 - 1937 - 1936