Awards & Winners

1985 Governor General's Awards

Check winners and nominations of 1985 Governor General's Awards. Check awards winners of 1985 Governor General's Awards. (Click on the Award name to show winners and nominees)

Governor General's Award for English-language poetry

Fred Wah

Honored for : Waiting for Saskatchewan
Governor General's Award for English-language drama

George F. Walker

Honored for : George F. Walker's Criminals in love
Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction

George Ramsay Cook

Honored for : The Regenerators
Governor General's Award for English-language fiction

Margaret Atwood

Honored for : The Handmaid's Tale

Nominations »

Nominee Nominated Work
David Adams Richards Road to the Stilt House
Keath Fraser Foreign affairs
Margaret Atwood The Handmaid's Tale
Sharon Butala Queen of the headaches