Editing 1979 Governor General's Awards (section)

==English==
{|class="wikitable" width="100%"
!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language fiction|Fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Jack Hodgins]], ''The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne'''''<ref name="BC">{{cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-bc-writer-hodgins-win/159574754/|title=B.C. writer Hodgins wins top fiction prize|first=Ken|last=Adachi|work=[[Toronto Star]]|date=April 21, 1980|access-date=November 23, 2024|page=14|via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>
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*[[Margaret Atwood]], ''[[Life Before Man]]''
*[[Matt Cohen (writer)|Matt Cohen]], ''The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction|Non-fiction]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Maria Tippett]], ''Emily Carr'''''<ref name=BC/>
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*[[Robert Bothwell]] and [[William Kilbourn]], ''C.D. Howe''
*Larry Pratt and [[John Richards (scholar)|John Richards]], ''Prairie Capitalism''
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| align="center"| [[Governor General's Award for English-language poetry or drama|Poetry or drama]]
|{{blue ribbon}} '''[[Michael Ondaatje]], ''There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do'''''<ref name=BC/>
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*[[Erín Moure]], ''Empire, York Street''
*[[Susan Musgrave]], ''A Man to Marry, a Man to Bury''
|}