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1981 Governor General's Awards

1981 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1981 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The 1981 awards were the first time that separate awards were presented for poetry and drama, which had previously competed in a single "poetry or drama" category.

English[edit]

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories

No advance shortlist was released for this category.[1]

Non-fiction Blue ribbon George Calef, Caribou and the Barren-Lands
Poetry Blue ribbon F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott
Drama Blue ribbon Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations

French[edit]

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Denys Chabot, La province lunaire
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, L'échappée des discours de l'oeil
Poetry Blue ribbon Michel Beaulieu, Visages

No advance shortlist was released for this category.

Drama Blue ribbon Marie Laberge, C'était avant la guerre à l'anse à Gilles

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Kareda lands Gallant play for Tarragon". Toronto Star, April 29, 1982.

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