1981 Governor General's Awards

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

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Mavis Gallant, Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories	No advance shortlist was released for this category.^[1]
Non-fiction	George Calef, Caribou and the Barren-Lands	Claude Bissell, The Young Vincent Massey Elspeth Cameron, Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life
Poetry	F.R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F.R. Scott	Alfred Bailey, Miramichi Lightning: Collected Poems Barry McKinnon, The The
Drama	Sharon Pollock, Blood Relations	Charles Tidler, Straight Ahead and Blind Dancers George F. Walker, Theatre of the Film Noir

French

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Denys Chabot, La province lunaire	Noël Audet, Ah, l'amour l'amour Aline Beaudin Beaupré, L'aventure de Blanche Morti Louis Caron, Le canard de bois
Non-fiction	Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, L'échappée des discours de l'oeil	Maurice Cusson, Délinquants pourquoi? Andrée Pilon-Quiviger, L'éden éclaté
Poetry	Michel Beaulieu, Visages	No advance shortlist was released for this category.
Drama	Marie Laberge, C'était avant la guerre à l'anse à Gilles	Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Vie et mort du Roi Boiteux

References

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

Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit

English-language awards	Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1937–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration French to English translation

French-language awards	Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1959–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration English to French translation

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