1985 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1985 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:

Poetry

Winner:

Other Finalists:

Drama

Winner:

Other Finalists:

  • David French, Salt-water Moon
  • Margaret Hollingsworth, War Babies (in Willful Acts: Five Plays)
  • Ken Mitchell, Gone the Burning Sun

Non-fiction

Winner:

  • Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada

Other Finalists:

  • Michael D. Behiels, Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism
  • John Herd Thompson, Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord
  • P.B. Waite, The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

  • Fernand Ouellette, Lucie ou un midi en novembre

Other Finalists:

  • Louise Bouchard, Les Images
  • Jean-Paul Fugère, Popa moman et le saint homme
  • Suzanne Paradis, La Ligne bleue

Poetry

Winner:

Other Finalists:

  • Anne-Marie Alonzo, Bleus de mine
  • François Charron, La vie n'a pas de sens
  • Patrice Desbiens, Dans l'après-midi cardiaque
  • Paul Chanel Malenfant, Les noms du père, suivi de Lieux dits: Italique

Drama

Winner:

  • Maryse Pelletier, Duo pour voix obstinées

Other Finalists:

Non-fiction

Winner:

  • François Ricard, La littérature contre elle-même

Other Finalists:

  • Lysiane Gagnon, Chroniques politiques
  • Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon, Marie Gérin-Lajoie

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