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:
*Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints
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:
*Margaret Avison, No Time
Other Finalists:
*Dionne Brand, No Language Is Neutral
*Patrick Lane, Winter
Drama
Winner:
*Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
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:
*Michael Bedard, Redwork
Other Finalists:
*Jan Andrews, The Auction
*Brian Doyle, Covered Bridge
*Welwyn Wilton Katz, Whale Singer
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
Other Governor General's Awards:
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