1980 Governor General's Awards
- 1980 Governor General's Awards
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.
English Language
Fiction
Winner:
*George Bowering, "Burning Water"
Other Finalists:
*Susan Musgrave, "The Charcoal Burners"
*Leon Rooke, "Fat Woman"
Poetry and Drama
Winner:
*Stephen Scobie, "McAlmon's Chinese Opera"
Other Finalist:
*Douglas Lochhead, "High Marsh Road"
Non-fiction
Winner:
*Jeffrey Simpson, "Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration"
Other Finalists:
*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:
*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"
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:
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