1984 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1984 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.[1]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Josef Skvorecky, The Engineer of Human Souls
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Sandra Gwyn, The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier
  • Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion
  • Graham Fraser, P.Q.: René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power
Poetry Blue ribbon Paulette Jiles, Celestial Navigation
Drama Blue ribbon Judith Thompson, White Biting Dog

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Jacques Brault, Agonie
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Jean Hamelin and Nicole Gagnon, Le XXe Siècle: Histoire du catholicisme québécois
  • Luc Bureau, Entre l'Éden et l'Utopie
  • Philippe Haeck, La Table d'écriture: poéthique et modernité
Poetry Blue ribbon Nicole Brossard, Double Impression
Drama Blue ribbon René-Daniel Dubois, Ne blâmez jamais les Bédouins

References
  1. "Literary award winners to be announced June 6". Montreal Gazette, May 17, 1985.
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