1985 Governor General's Awards

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.

English
Category Winner Finalists
Fiction Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Non-fiction Ramsay Cook, The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada
  • 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
Poetry Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan
Drama George F. Walker, Criminals in Love

French
Category Winner Finalists
Fiction Fernand Ouellette, Lucie ou un midi en novembre
  • Louise Bouchard, Les Images
  • Jean-Paul Fugère, Popa moman et le saint homme
  • Suzanne Paradis, La Ligne bleue
Non-fiction François Ricard, La littérature contre elle-même
  • Lysiane Gagnon, Chroniques politiques
  • Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon, Marie Gérin-Lajoie
Poetry André Roy, Action writing
Drama Maryse Pelletier, Duo pour voix obstinées
gollark: Also "The five boxing wizards jump quickly".
gollark: "Jived fox nymph grabs quick waltz" and "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" are two good not-quite-perfect pangrams.
gollark: There are many.
gollark: It's exotically spelled, so yes.
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram

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