1990 Governor General's Awards

The 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were prizes awarded to authors in 1990.[1] Each winner of the prize received $10000 and a specially bound edition of their book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times
  • 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Margaret Avison, No Time
Drama Blue ribbon Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Children's literature Blue ribbon Michael Bedard, Redwork
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy
  • Warabé Aska, Seasons
  • Frances Tyrrell, The Huron Carol
French to English translation Blue ribbon Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence
  • Patricia Claxton, Letters to Bernadette
  • Sheila Fischman, Benito
  • Anthony Martin-Sperry, Charlevoix: Two Centuries at Murray Bay
  • Susan Usher, Community Care and Participatory Research

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Gérald Tougas, La Mauvaise foi
  • 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
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Jean-François Lisée, Dans l'oeil de l'aigle
  • 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Jean-Paul Daoust, Les Cendres bleues
Drama Blue ribbon Jovette Marchessault, Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr
Children's literature Blue ribbon Christiane Duchesne, La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic
  • José Fréchette, L'Automne à 15 ans
  • Philippe Gauthier, L'Héritage de Qader
  • Johanne Massé, Le Passé en péril
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Pierre Pratt, Les Fantaisies de l'oncle Henri
English to French translation Blue ribbon Charlotte Melançon and Robert Melançon, Le Second rouleau
  • Claire Dupond, Lettres à un ami québécois
  • Ivan Steenhout, Onyx John

References
  1. Philip Marchand, "Toronto's Nino Ricci wins top book prize". Toronto Star, January 23, 1991.
  2. "Prominent names among nominees". Windsor Star, November 17, 1990.
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