The 1990 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were prizes awarded to authors in 1990.^[1] Each winner of the prize received $10000 and a specially bound edition of their book. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.^[2]

English

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Nino Ricci, Lives of the Saints	Sky Lee, Disappearing Moon Café Alice Munro, Friend of My Youth Leslie Hall Pinder, On Double Tracks Diane Schoemperlen, Man of My Dreams
Non-fiction	Stephen Clarkson & Christina McCall, Trudeau and Our Times	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
Poetry	Margaret Avison, No Time	Dionne Brand, No Language Is Neutral Patrick Lane, Winter
Drama	Ann-Marie MacDonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)	Audrey Butler, Black Friday? John Mighton, Scientific Americans George F. Walker, Love and Anger
Children's literature	Michael Bedard, Redwork	Jan Andrews, The Auction Brian Doyle, Covered Bridge Welwyn Wilton Katz, Whale Singer
Children's illustration	Paul Morin, The Orphan Boy	Warabé Aska, Seasons Frances Tyrrell, The Huron Carol
French to English translation	Jane Brierley, Yellow-Wolf and Other Tales of the Saint Lawrence	Patricia Claxton, Letters to Bernadette Sheila Fischman, Benito Anthony Martin-Sperry, Charlevoix: Two Centuries at Murray Bay Susan Usher, Community Care and Participatory Research

French

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Gérald Tougas, La Mauvaise foi	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
Non-fiction	Jean-François Lisée, Dans l'oeil de l'aigle	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
Poetry	Jean-Paul Daoust, Les Cendres bleues	Geneviève Amyot, Corps d'atelier André Brochu, Dans les chances de l'air Denise Desautels, Leçons de Venise Joël Des Rosiers, Tribu
Drama	Jovette Marchessault, Le Voyage magnifique d'Emily Carr	René-Daniel Dubois, Le Troisième fils du professeur Yourolov Anne Hébert, L'Île de la Demoiselle
Children's literature	Christiane Duchesne, La Vraie histoire du chien de Clara Vic	José Fréchette, L'Automne à 15 ans Philippe Gauthier, L'Héritage de Qader Johanne Massé, Le Passé en péril
Children's illustration	Pierre Pratt, Les Fantaisies de l'oncle Henri	Mireille Levert, Jérémie et Mme Ming, Stéphane Poulin, Les Amours de ma mère
English to French translation	Charlotte Melançon and Robert Melançon, Le Second rouleau	Claire Dupond, Lettres à un ami québécois Ivan Steenhout, Onyx John

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