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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 in which a list of finalists was released a month before the presentation of the awards. This was done to attract more publicity.1 English Language
1.1 Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man
- Matt Cohen , The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
1.2 Poetry and Drama
Winner:
Other Finalists:
1.3 Nonfiction
Winner:
- Maria Tippett , Emily Carr
Other Finalists:
- Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn , C.D. Howe
- Larry Pratt and John Richards , Prairie Capitalism
2 French Language
2.1 Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Suzanne Jacob , La Survie
- Suzanne Paradis , Miss Charlie
2.2 Poetry and Drama
Winner:
- Robert Mélançon , Peinture aveugle
Other Finalists:
- Marcel Bélanger , Migrations
- André Roy , Les passions du samedi
2.3 Nonfiction
Winner:
- Dominique Clift and Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos , Le fait anglais au Québec
Other Finalists:
- Daniel Latouche , Une société de l'ambiguïté
- Pierre Nepveu , Les mots à l'écoute
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Governor General's Awards 1979
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