1990 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5 000 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:
Other Finalists:
Sky Lee , Disappearing Moon Café
Alice Munro , Friend of My Youth
Leslie Hall Pinder , On Double Tracks
Diane Schoemperlen , Man of My Dreams
Poetry
Winner:
Other Finalists:
Drama
Winner:
Other Finalists:
Audrey Butler , Black Friday?
John Mighton , Scientific Americans
George F. Walker , Love and Anger
Non-fiction
Winner:
Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall , Trudeau and Our Times
Other Finalists:
Timothy Findley , Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook
Eugene Forsey , A Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene Forsey
Ron Graham , God's Dominion: A Sceptic's Quest
James King , The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read
Children's Literature - Text
Winner:
Other Finalists:
Children's Literature - Illustration
Winner:
Paul Morin , The Orphan Boy
Other Finalists:
Warabé Aska , Seasons
Frances Tyrrell , The Huron Carol
Translation (from French to English)
Winner:
Jane Brierley , Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence
Other Finalists:
Patricia Claxton , Letters to Bernadette
Sheila Fischman , Benito
Tony Martin-Sperry , Charlevoix: Two Centuries at Murray Bay
Susan Usher , Community Care and Participatory Research
French Language
Fiction
Winner:
Gérald Tougas , La Mauvaise foi
Other Finalists:
Louis Lefebvre , Le Collier d'Hurracan
Michèle Mailhot , Le Passé composé
Jean Marcel , Jérôme ou de la traduction
France Vézina , Osther, le chat criblé d'étoiles
Poetry
Winner:
Jean-Paul Daoust , Les Cendres bleues
Other Finalists:
Geneviève Amyot , Corps d'atelier
André Brochu , Dans les chances de l'air
Denise Desautels , Leçons de Venise
Joël Des Rosiers , Tribu
Drama
Winner:
Jovette Marchessault , Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr
Other Finalists:
René-Daniel Dubois , Le Troisième fils du professeur Yourolov
Anne Hébert , L'Île de la Demoiselle
Non-fiction
Winner:
Jean-François Lisée , Dans l'oeil de l'aigle
Other Finalists:
Gérard Bergeron , Petit traité de l'État de France'
Martin Blais , L'Autre Thomas d'Aquin
Daniel Latouche , Le Bazar
Laurent-Michel Vacher , L'Empire du moderne
Children's Literature - Text
Winner:
Christiane Duchesne , La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic
Other Finalists:
José Fréchette , L'Automne à 15 ans
Philippe Gauthier , L'Héritage de Qader
Johanne Massé , Le Passé en péril
Children's Literature - Illustration
Winner:
Pierre Pratt , Les Fantaisies de l'oncle Henri
Other Finalists:
Mireille Levert , Jérémie et Mme Ming ,
Stéphane Poulin , Les Amours de ma mère ,
Translation (from English to French)
Winner:
Charlotte et Robert Melançon , Le Second rouleau
Other Finalists:
Claire Dupond , Lettres à un ami québécois
Ivan Steenhout , Onyx John
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