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 Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Fred Wah, Waiting for Saskatchewan
Drama Blue ribbon George F. Walker, Criminals in Love
  • David French, Salt-Water Moon
  • Margaret Hollingsworth, War Babies (in Willful Acts: Five Plays)
  • Ken Mitchell, Gone the Burning Sun

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon François Ricard, La littérature contre elle-même
  • Lysiane Gagnon, Chroniques politiques
  • Hélène Pelletier-Baillargeon, Marie Gérin-Lajoie
Poetry Blue ribbon André Roy, Action writing
Drama Blue ribbon Maryse Pelletier, Duo pour voix obstinées

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