Each winner of the 1980 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, was introduced by Parliament in 1957. ...

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• George Bowering, Burning Water

Other Finalists: George Harry Bowering (born 1935) is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. ...

• Susan Musgrave, The Charcoal Burners
• Leon Rooke, Fat Woman

Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and childrens writer who lives in Sidney, British Columbia. ... Leon Rooke (born 1934) is a Canadian novelist. ...

Poetry and Drama

Winner:

• Stephen Scobie, McAlmon's Chinese Opera

Other Finalist:

• Douglas Lochhead, High March Road

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Jeffrey Simpson, Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration

Other Finalists: Jeffrey Simpson, The Globe and Mails national affairs columnist, has won all three of Canadas leading literary prizes -- the Governor Generals Award for non-fiction book writing, the National Magazine Award for political writing, and the National Newspaper Award for column writing. ...

• John Fraser, The Chinese: Portrait of a People
• Donald MacKay, Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Pierre Turgeon, La première personne

Other Finalists: Pierre Turgeon (b. ...

• Gilbert LaRocque, Les masques
• Hélène Ouvrard, La noyante

Poetry and Drama

Winner:

• Michel Van Schendel, De l'oeil et de l'écoute

Other Finalists:

• Nicole Brossard, Amantes
• Gilles Cyr, Ce lieu

Nicole Brossard (born November 27, 1943 in Montreal) is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist. ...

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Maurice Champagne-Gilbert, La famille et l'homme à délivrer du pouvoir

Other Finalists:

• Jean-Luc Hétu, Croissance humaine et instinct spirituel
• Yvan Lamonde, La philosophie et son enseignement au Québec

Other Governor General's Awards:

2004 - 2003 - 2002 - 2001 - 2000 - 1999 - 1998 - 1997 - 1996 - 1995 - 1994 - 1993 - 1992 - 1991 - 1990 - 1989 - 1988 - 1987 - 1986 - 1985 - 1984 - 1983 - 1982 - 1981 - 1980 - 1979 - 1978 - 1977 - 1976 - 1975 - 1974 - 1973 - 1972 - 1971 - 1970 - 1969 - 1968 - 1967 - 1966 - 1965 - 1964 - 1963 - 1962 - 1961 - 1960 - 1959 - 1958 - 1957 - 1956 - 1955 - 1954 - 1953 - 1952 - 1951 - 1950 - 1949 - 1948 - 1947 - 1946 - 1945 - 1944 - 1943 - 1942 - 1941 - 1940 - 1939 - 1938 - 1937 - 1936 Since their creation in 1937, the Governor Generals Literary Awards have become one of Canadas most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Childrens Literature-Text, Childrens Literature-Illustration, and Translation. ... Each winner of the 1986 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ... Each winner of the 1969 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. ...