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The Governor General's Award for French-language poetry or drama was a Canadian literary award that annually recognized one Canadian writer for a work of poetry or drama published in French. It was one of the Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit from 1959 to 1980, after which it was divided into the award for French-language poetry and award for French-language drama. The Governor General's Awards program is administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The program was created and inaugurated in 1937, for 1936 publications in two categories, conventionally called the 1936 awards. French-language works were first recognized by the 1959 Governor General's Awards.^[1]

1950s

Year	Author	Title
1959	Félix-Antoine Savard	*Le barachois*

1960s

Year	Author	Title
1960	Anne Hébert	*Poèmes*
1961	No award presented
1962	Jacques Languirand	*Les insolites et les violons de l'automne*
1963	Gatien Lapointe	*Ode au Saint-Laurent*
1964	Pierre Perrault	*Au cœur de la rose*
1965	Gilles Vigneault	*Quand les bateaux s'en vont*
1966	Réjean Ducharme	*L'avalée des avalés*
1967	Françoise Loranger	*Encore cinq minutes*
1968	No award presented
1969	Jean-Guy Pilon	*Comme eau retenue*

1970s

Year	Author	Title
1970	Jacques Brault	*Quand nous serons heureux*
1971	Paul-Marie Lapointe	*Le réel absolu*
1972	Gilles Hénault	*Signaux pour les voyants*
1972	John Newlove	Lies
1973	Roland Giguère	*La main au feu*
1974	Nicole Brossard	*Mécanique jongleuse suivi de Masculin grammaticale*
1975	Pierre Perrault	*Chouennes*
1976	Alphonse Piché	*Poèmes 1946-1968*
1977	Michel Garneau	*Les célébrations et Adidou Adidouce*
1978	Gilbert Langevin	*Mon refuge est un volcan*
1979	Robert Melançon	*Peinture aveugle*

1980s

Year	Author	Title
1980	Michel van Schendel	*De l'oeil et de l'écoute*
See Governor General's Award for French-language poetry and Governor General's Award for French-language drama for 1981 and after.