- 1986 Governor General's Awards
Each winner of the 1986 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
English Language
Fiction
Winner:
*Alice Munro , "The Progress of Love "Other Finalists:
*Lois Braun , "A Stone Watermelon"
*John Metcalf, "Adult Entertainment"
*Aritha van Herk , "No Fixed Address"Poetry
Winner:
*Al Purdy , "The Collected Poems of Al Purdy"Other Finalists:
*Christopher Dewdney , "The Immaculate Perception"
*John Newlove , "The Night the Dog Smiled"Drama
Winner:
*Sharon Pollock , "Doc"Other Finalists:
*Frank Moher , "Odd Jobs"
*Allan Stratton , "Papers"Non-fiction
Winner:
*Northrop Frye , "Northrop Frye on Shakespeare"Other Finalists:
*Claude Bissell , "The Imperial Canadian"
*Phyllis Grosskurth , "Melanie Klein"
*Witold Rybczynski , "Home"French Language
Fiction
Winner:
*Yvon Rivard , "Les silences du corbeau"Other Finalists:
*Pierre Nepveu , "L'hiver de Mira Christophe"
*Sylvain Trudel , "Le souffle de l'Harmattan"Poetry
Winner:
*Cécile Cloutier , "L'écouté"Other Finalists:
*François Charron , "La chambre des miracles"
*Normand de Bellefeuille , "Catégoriques, un deux et trois"
*Louise Dupré , "Chambres"Drama
Winner:
*Anne Legault , "La visite des sauvages"Other Finalists:
*Normand Chaurette , "Fragments d'une lettre d'adieulus par des géologues"
*Yves Desgagnés andLouise Roy , "Les nouilles"
*Jean-Pierre Ronfard , "Le Titanic"Non-fiction
Winner:
*Régine Robin , "Le réalisme socialiste: une esthétique impossible"Other Finalists:
*Marcel Fournier , "L'entrée dans la modernité: science, culture et société au Québec"
*René Major , "De l'élection: Freud face aux idéologies américaine, allemande et soviétiq"Other
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