1986 Governor General's Awards
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Each winner of the 1986 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts
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:
  • Alice Munro
    Alice Munro
    Alice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...

    , The Progress of Love
    The Progress of Love
    The Progress of Love is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1986. It won the 1986 Governor General's Award for English Fiction, her third win of that award.-Stories:* "The Progress of Love"* "Lichen"...



Other Finalists:
  • Lois Braun, A Stone Watermelon
  • John Metcalf
    John Metcalf (writer)
    John Metcalf, CM is a Canadian writer, editor and critic.-Biographical:Metcalf was born in Carlisle, England on November 12, 1938. His father, Thomas Metcalf, was a clergyman and his mother, Gladys Moore Metcalf, was a teacher. Metcalf immigrated to Canada in 1962 at the age of 24. It was in...

    , Adult Entertainment
  • Aritha van Herk
    Aritha Van Herk
    Aritha van Herk is a Canadian writer, critic, editor, and university professor.She was born in Wetaskiwin, Alberta . Her parents and elder siblings immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands before she was born. She grew up in a bilingual home, speaking English and Dutch. In 1974, she married...

    , No Fixed Address

Poetry

Winner:
  • Al Purdy
    Al Purdy
    Alfred Wellington Purdy, OC, O.Ont was one of the most popular and important Canadian poets of the 20th century. Purdy's writing career spanned more than fifty years. His works include over thirty books of poetry; a novel; two volumes of memoirs and four books of correspondence...

    , The Collected Poems of Al Purdy


Other Finalists:
  • Christopher Dewdney
    Christopher Dewdney
    Christopher Dewdney is a Canadian writer and poet.He was born in London, Ontario, and presently lives in Toronto, where he is a professor at York University. He is the long-time partner of writer Barbara Gowdy. Winner of the 2007 Harbourfront Festival Prize, he is the author of four books of...

    , The Immaculate Perception
  • John Newlove
    John Newlove
    John Newlove was a Canadian poet who was considered to be one of the dominant voices of prairie poetry, though he lived most of his adult life in British Columbia and Ontario.-Life:...

    , The Night the Dog Smiled

Drama

Winner:
  • Sharon Pollock
    Sharon Pollock
    Sharon Pollock is a Canadian playwright, actor, director, who lives in Calgary, Alberta. She has been Artistic Director of Theatre Calgary , Theatre New Brunswick and Performance Kitchen & The Garry Theatre, the latter which she herself founded in 1992. In 2007, she was made a Fellow of the Royal...

    , Doc


Other Finalists:
  • Frank Moher
    Frank Moher
    Frank Moher is a Canadian playwright, director, and journalist.He was born in Edmonton, Alberta and lived in New York City and Calgary, Alberta...

    , Odd Jobs
  • Allan Stratton
    Allan Stratton
    Allan Stratton is a Canadian playwright and novelist.Born in Stratford, Ontario, Stratton began his professional arts career began while he was still in high school, when James Reaney published his play The Rusting Heart in the literary magazine Alphabet. It was broadcast on CBC Radio in 1970. The...

    , Papers

Non-fiction

Winner:
  • Northrop Frye
    Northrop Frye
    Herman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....

    , Northrop Frye on Shakespeare


Other Finalists:
  • Claude Bissell
    Claude Bissell
    Claude Thomas Bissell, was a Canadian author and educator.-Biography:He was the eighth president of the University of Toronto from 1958 to 1971. He played a major part in the expansion of the University of Toronto, tripling the size of the university during his tenure.He was born in Meaford,...

    , The Imperial Canadian
  • Phyllis Grosskurth
    Phyllis Grosskurth
    Phyllis M. Grosskurth, is a Canadian biographer.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, honours English from the University of Toronto and a Master of Arts degree from the University of Ottawa...

    , Melanie Klein
  • Witold Rybczynski
    Witold Rybczynski
    Witold Rybczynski , is a Canadian-American architect, professor and writer.Rybczynski was born in Edinburgh of Polish parentage and raised in Surrey, England before moving at a young age to Canada. He attended Loyola High School , located on Sherbrooke street, in Montreal-Ouest...

    , Home

Fiction

Winner:
  • Yvon Rivard, Les silences du corbeau


Other Finalists:
  • Pierre Nepveu
    Pierre Nepveu
    Pierre Nepveu is a famous French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. He specializes in Quebec modern poetry, in particular that of Gaston Miron...

    , L'hiver de Mira Christophe
  • Sylvain Trudel, Le souffle de l'Harmattan

Poetry

Winner:
  • Cécile Cloutier, L'écouté


Other Finalists:
  • François Charron, La chambre des miracles
  • Normand de Bellefeuille, Catégoriques, un deux et trois
  • Louise Dupré, Chambres

Drama

Winner:
  • Anne Legault, La visite des sauvages


Other Finalists:
  • Normand Chaurette, Fragments d'une lettre d'adieulus par des géologues
  • Yves Desgagnés and Louise Roy, Les nouilles
  • Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Le Titanic

Non-fiction

Winner:
  • Régine Robin
    Régine Robin
    Régine Robin is a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the sociological practice of literature, have earned a number of awards, including the Governor-General's Award in 1986...

    , Le réalisme socialiste: une esthétique impossible


Other Finalists:
  • Marcel Fournier, L'entrée dans la modernité: science, culture et société au Québec
  • René Major, De l'élection: Freud face aux idéologies américaine, allemande et soviétique
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