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.
English Language
Fiction
Winner:
Poetry
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Alfred Bailey , Miramichi Lightning: Collected Poems
- Barry McKinnon , The The
Drama
Winner:
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:
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
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