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.
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English Language
Fiction
Winner:
- Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories
Poetry
Winner:
- F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott
Other Finalists:
- Alfred Bailey, Miramichi Lightning: Collected Poems
- Barry McKinnon, The The
Drama
Winner:
- Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations
Other Finalists:
- Charles Tidler, Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers
- George F. Walker, Theatre of the Film Noir
Non-fiction
Winner:
- George Calef, Caribou and the barren-lands
Other Finalists:
- Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey
- Elspeth Cameron, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life
French Language
Fiction
Winner:
- Denys Chabot, La province lunaire
Other Finalists:
- Noël Audet, Ah, l'amour l'amour
- Aline Beaudin Beaupré, L'aventure de Blanche Morti
- Louis Caron, Le canard de bois
Poetry
Winner:
- Michel Beaulieu, Visages
Drama
Winner:
- Marie Laberge, C'était avant la guerre à l'anse à Gilles
Other Finalist:
- Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux
Non-fiction
Winner:
- Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, L'échappée des discours de l'oeil
Other Finalists:
- Maurice Cusson, Délinquants pourquoi?
- Andrée Pilon-Quiviger, L'éden éclaté
Other Governor General's Awards:
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