Each winner of the 1984 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, is an agency of the Government of Canada created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. ...

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls

Other Finalists: Josef Skvorecky (born September 27, 1924 in Náchod, Czechoslovakia) is a famous contemporary Czech writer. ...

• Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage
• Susan Kerslake, The Book of Fears
• Audrey Thomas, Intertidal Life

Timothy Irving Frederick Findley, OC , O. Ont. ... Audrey Thomas Audrey Grace Thomas (née Callahan) (born November 17, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer who lives in Galiano, British Columbia. ...

Poetry

Winner:

• Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation

Other Finalists: Paulette Jiles (born 1943 in Salem, Missouri) is an American-born Canadian poet and novelist. ...

• Roo Borson, The Whole Night, Coming Home
• Marilyn Bowering, The Sunday before Winter
• David McFadden, The Art of Darkness
• Sharon Thesen, Confabulations
• Peter van Toorn, Mountain Tea

Ruth Elizabeth Borson, who writes under the name Roo Borson (1952- ) is a Canadian poet who lives in Toronto. ... Marilyn Bowering (born 1949) is a Canadian poet and novelist. ... David William McFadden (born October 11, 1940) is a Canadian poet and novelist. ... Sharon Thesen (born 28th October 1946) is a Canadian poet who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. ...

Drama

Winner:

• Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog

Other Finalists: Judith Thompson Judith Clare Thompson (born 1954) is a Canadian playwright who lives in Toronto, Ontario. ...

• James Reaney, The Canadian Brothers or The Prophecy Fulfilled
• George Ryga, A Letter to My Son

James Crerar Reaney (born September 1, 1926 in Easthope, Ontario) is a Canadian poet, playwright, and literary critic. ... George Ryga (July 27, 1932-November 18, 1987) was a Canadian playwright and novelist. ...

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier

Other Finalists: Alexandra Sandra Fraser Gwyn (May 17, 1935 – May 26, 2000) was a Canadian journalist and writer. ...

• Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion
• Graham Fraser, P.Q.: René Levesque and the Parti Québécois in Power

Graham Fraser (born 1946 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian journalist and writer. ...

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Jacques Brault, Agonie

Other Finalists: Jacques Brault (born March 29, 1933) is a French Canadian poet who lives in Cowansville, Quebec. ...

• Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska, La Maison Trestler
• Jacques Poulin, Volkswagen Blues
• Jacques Savoie, Les Portes tournantes
• Marie José Thériault, Les Demoiselles de Numidie

Jacques Poulin (born September 23, 1937 at Saint-Gédéon, Quebec) is a French-Canadian novelist with quiet and intimate style of writing. ...

Poetry

Winner:

• Nicole Brossard, Double Impression

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

• Michel Beaulieu, Kaléidoscope
• André Roy, Les sept jours de la jouissance
• Elise Turcotte, Navires de guerre

Andre Roy (born February 8, 1975 in Port Chester, New York) is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays left wing for the National Hockey Leagues Pittsburgh Penguins. ... Élise Turcotte is a Canadian writer born in Sorel, Quebec on June 26, 1957. ...

Drama

Winner:

• René-Daniel Dubois, Ne blâmez jamais les Bédouins

Other Finalists:

• Gilbert Dupuis, Les Transporteurs de monde
• Marcel Sabourin, Pleurer pour rire
• Michel Tremblay, Albertine en cinq temps

Michel Tremblay (born June 25, 1942) is an important Quebec novelist and playwright. ...

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Jean Hamelin and Nicole Gagnon, Le XXe Siècle: Histoire du catholicisme québécois

Other Finalists:

• Luc Bureau, Entre l'Éden et l'Utopie
• Philippe Haeck, La Table d'écriture: poéthique et modernité

Other Governor General's Awards:

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The 2003 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were announced on November 12. ... The 2002 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were be presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, November 19. ... The 2001 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were be presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on November 14. ... The 2000 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall. ... The winners of the 1999 Canadian Governor Generals Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts, at a press conference held on November 16th at the National Library of Canada. ... The winners of the 1998 Governor Generals Literary Awards were announced by Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman, and Shirley L. Thomson, Director of the Canada Council for the Arts on November 17th in Ottawa. ... The winners of the 1997 Governor Generals Literary Awards was announced on November 18th by Donna Scott, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts. ... The 1996 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit were presented on November 14th 1996. ... The 1995 Governor Generals Literary Awards were presented by Roméo LeBlanc, Governor General of Canada on November 14 at the Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto. ... Each winner of the 1994 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. ... Each winner of the 1993 Governor Generals Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. ... 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