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 |  Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne | |
| Non-fiction | Maria Tippett, Emily Carr | |
| Poetry or drama | 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 | Marie-Claire Blais, Le Sourd dans la ville | |
| Non-fiction | 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
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| Poetry or drama | Robert Melançon, Peinture aveugle | - Marcel Bélanger, Migrations
- André Roy, Les passions du samedi
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Jack Hodgins, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne