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{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}Each winner of the 1979 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The 1979 awards were the first for which a shortlist of finalists was released a month before the presentation of the awards. English| Category | Winner | Nominated | | Fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne- Margaret Atwood, Life Before Man
- Matt Cohen, The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
| | Non-fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Maria Tippett, Emily Carr- Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn, C.D. Howe
- Larry Pratt and John Richards, Prairie Capitalism
| | Poetry or drama | {{blue ribbon}} Michael Ondaatje, There's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to Do- Erin Mouré, Empire, York Street
- Susan Musgrave, A Man to Marry, a Man to Bury
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French| Category | Winner | Nominated | | Fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Marie-Claire Blais, Le Sourd dans la ville- Suzanne Jacob, La Survie
- Suzanne Paradis, Miss Charlie
| | Non-fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Dominique Clift and Sheila McLeod Arnopoulos, Le fait anglais au Québec- Daniel Latouche, Une société de l'ambiguïté
- Pierre Nepveu, Les mots à l'écoute
| | Poetry or drama | {{blue ribbon}} Robert Melançon, Peinture aveugle- Marcel Bélanger, Migrations
- André Roy, Les passions du samedi
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