Each winner of the 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10000 and a specially bound edition of his or her book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the
Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts (french: Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It acts as the federal government's principal in ...
Sky Lee
Sky Lee (born September 15, 1952 as Sharon Lee) is a Canadian artist and novelist. Lee has published both feminist fiction and non-fiction and identifies as lesbian.
Personal life
Lee was born September 15, 1952 in Port Alberni, British Columbi ...
, ''Disappearing Moon Café''
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Alice Munro
Alice Ann Munro (; ; born 10 July 1931) is a Canadian short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. Munro's work has been described as revolutionizing the architecture of short stories, especially in its tendency to move fo ...
, ''
Friend of My Youth
''Friend of My Youth'' is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1990. It won the 1990 Trillium Book Award.
Stories
* "Friend of My Youth"
* "Five Points"
* "Meneseteung"
* "Hold Me Fast, Don't Let Me Pas ...
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Leslie Hall Pinder
Leslie Joyce Hall Pinder (née Hall) (born 21 September 1948, died 12 June 2021) was a Canadian lawyer and writer.
Early life
Born in Elrose, Saskatchewan, she earned a B.A. in English literature from the University of Saskatchewan and Dalhousie ...
Margaret Avison
Margaret Avison, (April 23, 1918 – July 31, 2007) was a Canadian poet who twice won Canada's Governor General's Award and has also won its Griffin Poetry Prize.Michael Gnarowski,Avison, Margaret" ''Canadian Encyclopedia'' (Edmonton: Hurtig ...
, ''No Time''
Other Finalists:
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Dionne Brand
Dionne Brand (born 7 January 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017Patrick Lane, ''Winter''
Drama
Winner:
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Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald (born October 29, 1958) is a Canadian playwright, author, actress, and broadcast host who lives in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. MacDonald is the daughter of a member of Canada's military; she was born at an air force base near ...
Audrey Butler
Alec Butler (born Audrey Butler; 1959) is a Canadian playwright and filmmaker.
Life and career
Butler was born in 1959, and is two-spirit, non-binary and intersex. Butler uses ''they''/''them'' and ''he''/''him'' pronouns. Assigned femal ...
, ''Black Friday?''
* John Mighton, ''Scientific Americans''
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George F. Walker
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Early years
W ...
Eugene Forsey
Eugene Alfred Forsey (May 29, 1904 – February 20, 1991) served in the Senate of Canada from 1970 to 1979. He was considered to be one of Canada's foremost constitutional experts.
Biography
Forsey was born on May 29, 1904, in Grand Bank in ...
, ''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:
* Michael Bedard, ''Redwork''
Other Finalists:
*
Jan Andrews
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:
Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
* Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code
* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
* Japanese Article N ...
, ''The Auction''
* Brian Doyle, ''Covered Bridge''
*
Welwyn Wilton Katz
Welwyn Wilton Katz (born June 7, 1948) is a Canadian children's author who has lived in Kitchener and Toronto, Ontario. In 1994 she was awarded the Vicky Metcalf Award. She currently lives in London, Ontario.
She gave an interview.
Works
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, ''Whale Singer''
Children's Literature – Illustration
Winner:
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Paul Morin
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Biography
A student at the Lycée Lalande, Morin joined the French Resistance through the Forces unies de la jeunesse patriotique. Marcel Cochet, one of ...
Susan Usher
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Jean Marcel
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Marcel trained for the priesthood at Dorchester Missionary ...
, ''Jérôme ou de la traduction''
* France Vézina, ''Osther, le chat criblé d'étoiles''
André Brochu
André Brochu (born 3 March 1942 in Saint-Eustache, Quebec) is a poet, essayist and professor of Quebecois literature.
Life
He graduated from the Université de Montréal in 1961, and from Université Paris VIII.
He has been a member of the ...
, ''Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr''
Other Finalists:
* René-Daniel Dubois, ''Le Troisième fils du professeur Yourolov''
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Anne Hébert
Anne Hébert (pronounced in French) (August 1, 1916 – January 22, 2000), was a Canadian author and poet. She won Canada's top literary honor, the Governor General's Award, three times, twice for fiction and once for poetry.
Early life
Héb ...
Laurent-Michel Vacher Laurent-Michel Vacher (26 May 1944 – 8 July 2005) was a French-born, French Canadian philosopher, writer, journalist (''Le Devoir, Hobo-Québec, Chroniques, Spirale'') and teacher (Ahuntsic College, Montreal).
He was a proponent of scien ...
, ''L'Empire du moderne''
Children's Literature – Text
Winner:
* Christiane Duchesne, ''La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic''
Other Finalists:
*
José Fréchette
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In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernac ...
, ''L'Automne à 15 ans''
* Philippe Gauthier, ''L'Héritage de Qader''
*
Johanne Massé
Johanne is an Old French equivalent of Joanna that is now a common French Canadian female given name.
Johanne as a given name
*Johanne Bégin (born 1971), Canadian waterpolo player
* Johanne Brekke, Welsh sport shooter
*Johanne Deschamps
Joha ...
, ''Le Passé en péril''
Children's Literature – Illustration
Winner:
*
Pierre Pratt
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation ...
, ''Les Fantaisies de l'oncle Henri''
Other Finalists:
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Mireille Levert
Mireille Levert (born December 20, 1956) is a Canadian writer and illustrator of children's books, living in Quebec.
She was born in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and studied plastic arts at the Université du Québec à Montréal, graduating in 1979. ...
, ''Jérémie et Mme Ming'',
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Stéphane Poulin Stéphane Poulin (born 1961) is a Canadian children's book author and illustrator living in Quebec.
He was born in Montreal, Quebec, and studied graphic arts at Collège Ahuntsic. In 1983, Poulin received honourable mention as children's book illu ...
, ''Les Amours de ma mère'',
Translation (from English to French)
Winner:
*
Charlotte
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Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.
The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...
Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.
The first award was conceived and inaugurated in 1937 by the ...