1980 Governor General's Awards
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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
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Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
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Fiction
Winner:- George BoweringGeorge BoweringGeorge Harry Bowering, OC, OBC is a prolific Canadian novelist, poet, historian, and biographer. He has served as Canada's Parliamentary Poet Laureate....
, Burning Water
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- Susan MusgraveSusan MusgraveSusan Musgrave is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and the Queen Charlotte Islands....
, The Charcoal Burners - Leon RookeLeon RookeLeon Rooke, CM is a Canadian novelist. He was born in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina in the United States. Educated at the University of North Carolina, he moved to Canada in 1969. He now lives in Toronto, Ontario....
, Fat Woman
Poetry and Drama
Winner:- Stephen ScobieStephen ScobieStephen Scobie is a Canadian poet, critic, and scholar.Born in Carnoustie, Scotland, Scobie relocated to Canada in 1965...
, McAlmon's Chinese Opera
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- Douglas LochheadDouglas LochheadDouglas Lochhead, FRSC was a Canadian poet who lived in Sackville, New Brunswick, of which town he was the official poet laureate...
, High Marsh Road
Non-fiction
Winner:- Jeffrey SimpsonJeffrey SimpsonJeffrey Carl Simpson, OC , is a Canadian journalist. He has been The Globe and Mails national affairs columnist for almost three decades...
, Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration
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- John Fraser, The Chinese: Portrait of a People
- Donald MacKayDonald MackayDonald Bruce Mackay was an Australian anti-drugs campaigner who came to fame in 1977 through the circumstances of his murder.Mackay was born in Griffith and raised in Sydney...
, Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector
Fiction
Winner:- Pierre TurgeonPierre TurgeonPierre Turgeon is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, St. Louis Blues, Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche...
, 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
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- Nicole BrossardNicole BrossardNicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
, 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