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1979 Governor General's Awards

Canadian literary award

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	url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-bc-writer-hodgins-win/159574754/	title=B.C. writer Hodgins wins top fiction prize	first=Ken	last=Adachi	work=Toronto Star	date=April 21, 1980	access-date=November 23, 2024	page=14	via=Newspapers.com}}
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'''''
Poetry or drama	'Robert Melançon, Peinture aveugle'''''

References

Adachi, Ken. (April 21, 1980). "B.C. writer Hodgins wins top fiction prize". [[Toronto Star]].

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