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.

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1 English Language 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Poetry 1.3 Drama 1.4 Non-fiction 2 French Language 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Drama 2.4 Non-fiction 3 Other 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

Other Governor General's Awards:

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