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
Poetry F. R. Scott, The Collected Poems of F. R. Scott
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
  1. "Kareda lands Gallant play for Tarragon". Toronto Star, April 29, 1982.
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