1979 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The 1979 awards were the first for which a shortlist of finalists was released a month before the presentation of the awards.

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
Non-fiction Maria Tippett, Emily Carr
Poetry or drama Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Marie-Claire Blais, Le Sourd dans la ville
Non-fiction Dominique Clift and Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos, Le fait anglais au Québec
  • Daniel Latouche, Une société de l'ambiguïté
  • Pierre Nepveu, Les mots à l'écoute
Poetry or drama Robert Melançon, Peinture aveugle
  • Marcel Bélanger, Migrations
  • André Roy, Les passions du samedi
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