A List of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award Winners
Here’s a list of Winners of Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for English Fiction (that’s four (4) " ‘s" in one short sentence if you include the first one of these two in parentheses). How many have you read? Okay. How many have you heard of?
A Perfect Night to Go to China David Gilmour Thomas Allen 2005
A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews Alfred A. Knopf 2004
Elle Douglas Glover Goose Lane Editions 2003
A Song for Nettie Johnson Gloria Sawai Coteau Books 2002
Clara Callan Richard B. Wright Harper Flamingo 2001
Anil’s Ghost Michael Ondaatje McClelland & Stewart 2000
Elizabeth and After Matt Cohen Alfred A. Knopf 1999
Forms of Devotion Diane Schoemperlen HarperCollins 1998
The Underpainter Jane Urquhart McClelland & Stewart 1997
The Englishman’s Boy Guy Vanderhaeghe McClelland & Stewart 1996
The Roaring Girl Greg Hollingshead Somerville House 1995
A Discovery of Strangers Rudy Wiebe Alfred A. Knopf 1994
The Stone Diaries Carol Shields Random House of Canada 1993
The English Patient Michael Ondaatje McClelland and Stewart 1992
Such a Long Journey Rohinton Mistry McClelland and Stewart 1991
Lives of the Saints Nino Ricci Cormorant Books 1990
Whale Music Paul Quarrington Doubleday Canada 1989
Nights Below Station Street David Adams Richards M & S 1988
A Dream Like Mine M.T. Kelly Stoddart 1987
The Progress of Love Alice Munro McClelland and Stewart 1986
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood McClelland and Stewart 1985
The Engineer of Human Souls Josef Skvorecky Lester & Orpen 1984
Shakespeare’s Dog Leon Rooke Stoddart 1983
Man Descending Guy Vanderhaeghe Macmillan 1982
Home Truths Mavis Gallant Macmillan-Gage 1981
Burning Water George Bowering Musson/General 1980
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne Jack Hodgins Macmillan 1979
Who Do You Think You Are? Alice Munro Macmillan 1978
The Wars Timothy Findley Clarke, Irwin 1977
Bear Marian Engel McClelland and Stewart 1976
The Great Victorian Collection Brian Moore M & S 1975
The Diviners Margaret Laurence McClelland and Stewart 1974
The Temptations of Big Bear Rudy Wiebe M& S 1973
The Manticore Robertson Davies Macmillan 1972
St. Urbain’s Horseman Mordecai Richler M & S 1971
The New Ancestors Dave Godfrey New Press 1970
The Studhorse Man Robert Kroetsch Macmillan 1969
Dance of the Happy Shades Alice Munro The Ryerson Press 1967
A Jest of God Margaret Laurence McClelland and Stewart 1965
The Deserter Douglas LePan McClelland and Stewart 1964
Hugh Garner’s Best Stories Hugh Garner The Ryerson Press 1963
Running to Paradise Kildare Dobbs Oxford 1962
Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Malcolm Lowry Lippincott 1961
The Luck of Ginger Coffey Brian Moore Little, Brown & Co. 1960
The Watch that Ends the Night Hugh MacLennan Macmillan 1959
Execution Colin McDougall Macmillan 1957 Street of Riches (trans.) Gabrielle Roy M & S 1957
The Sacrifice Adele Wiseman Macmillan 1956
The Sixth of June Lionel Shapiro Doubleday & Co. 1955
The Fall of a Titan, by Igor Gouzenko, Norton, Cassell, 1954
Digby David Walker Collins Clear-Type Press 1953
The Pillar David Walker Collins Houghton Mifflin 1952
The Loved and the Lost Morley Callaghan Macmillan 1951
The Outlander (trans.) Germaine Guevremont McGraw-Hill 1950
Mr. Ames Against Time Philip Child The Ryerson Press 1949
The Precipice Hugh MacLennan Wm. Collins Sons & Co. 1948
The Tin Flute (trans.) Gabrielle Roy Reynal & Hitchcock/ M&S 1947
Continental Revue Winifred Bambrick Faber/Ryerson 1946
Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan Wm. Collins Sons & Co. Canada 1945
Earth and High Heaven Gwethalyn Graham Cape/ Thomas Nelson 1944
The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek Thomas Raddall Blackwood/M&S 1943
Little Man G. Herbert Sallans The Ryerson Press 1942
Three Came to Ville Marie Alan Sullivan Oxford 1941
Thirty Acres (translation) Ringuet (pseud.) Macmillan 1940
The Champlain Road Franklin D. McDowell Macmillan 1939
Swiss Sonata Gwethalyn Graham Cape/Thomas Nelson 1938
The Dark Weaver Laura G. Salverson The Ryerson Press 1937
Think of The Earth Bertram Brooker Thomas Nelson 1936
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