1986 Governor General's Awards

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.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Alice Munro, "The Progress of Love"

Other Finalists:
*Lois Braun, "A Stone Watermelon"
*John Metcalf, "Adult Entertainment"
*Aritha van Herk, "No Fixed Address"

Poetry

Winner:
*Al Purdy, "The Collected Poems of Al Purdy"

Other Finalists:
*Christopher Dewdney, "The Immaculate Perception"
*John Newlove, "The Night the Dog Smiled"

Drama

Winner:
*Sharon Pollock, "Doc"

Other Finalists:
*Frank Moher, "Odd Jobs"
*Allan Stratton, "Papers"

Non-fiction

Winner:
*Northrop Frye, "Northrop Frye on Shakespeare"

Other Finalists:
*Claude Bissell, "The Imperial Canadian"
*Phyllis Grosskurth, "Melanie Klein"
*Witold Rybczynski, "Home"

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Yvon Rivard, "Les silences du corbeau"

Other Finalists:
*Pierre Nepveu, "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, "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 soviétiq"

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