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
French
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Winner
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Nominated
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| Fiction
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André Brochu, La croix du Nord
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- 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
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| Non-fiction
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Bernard Arcand, Le Jaguar et le Tamanoir
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- 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
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| Poetry
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Madeleine Gagnon, Chant pour un Québec lointain
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| Drama
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Gilbert Dupuis, Mon oncle Marcel qui vague vague près du métro Berri
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| Children's literature
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François Gravel, Deux heures et demie avant Jasmine
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| Children's illustration
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Sheldon Cohen, Un champion
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| English to French translation
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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)
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References
- ^ "First novel earns top literary honor". Windsor Star, December 4, 1991.
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