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1958 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1958 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerKlondikePierre BertonWith the building of the railroad and the settlement of the plains, the North West was opening up. The Klondike stampede was a wild interlude in the epic story of western development, and here are its dramatic tales of hardship, heroism, and villainy. We m...AmazonThe History of Fanny BurneyJoyce Hemlow...Amazon
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1958 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1958 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerA Suit of NettlesJames ReaneyThe title of A Suit of Nettles was inspired by a German fairy tale. Seven suits of nettles are woven by the sister of seven brothers who have been changed into swans. When the time comes for the seven swans to put on their suits of nettles and regain human...Amazon
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1959 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1959 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1959 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Watch that Ends the NightHugh MacLennanJerome Martell abadoned his wife Catherine and their daughter Sally to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. After he was presumed dead, Catherine married her childhood friend George. Twelve years later, Jerome returned to Montreal and tur...Amazon
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1960 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1960 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerIn Search of Canadian LiberalismFrank H. UnderhillFrank Underhill was an outspoken public intellectual, whose charged career as a university historian is reflected in this collection of essays on Canadas political history, covering the Family Compact to the government of Louis St. Laurent. Witty, energet...Amazon
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1960 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1960 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerWinter SunMargaret AvisonAlways Now, Collected Poems of Margaret Avison, encompasses in three volumes all of the published books, from Winter Sun (1960) to Concrete and Wild Carrot (2002), and is framed by a gathering of uncollected and new poems respectively. When complete, Alway...Amazon
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1961 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1961 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerHear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling PlaceMalcolm LowrySeven stories and novellas by the author of Under the Volcano, a master of twentieth-century fiction. For fans of the novel Under the Volcano, this collection of stories—many of them published for the first time posthumously—provides great insight into the...Amazon
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