1981 Governor General's Awards

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1981 Governor General's Awards

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''

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