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Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

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1978 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1978 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerWho Do You Think You Are?Alice Munro**Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature** Born into the back streets of a small Canadian town, Rose battled incessantly with her practical and shrewd stepmother, Flo, who cowed her with tales of her own past and warnings of the dangerous world outside. B...Amazon
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1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1945 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerTwo SolitudesHugh MacLennanWinner of the Governor Generals Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013 A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennans Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation shoul...Amazon
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1936 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1936 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThink of The EarthBertram Brooker"A mysterious story, but not a mystery--a murder story, without a murder. The interest centres round the question of who will be murdered? rather than who is the murderer? Tavistock, an Englishman who drifts to Western Canada, becomes obsessed by a...Amazon
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1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1938 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerSwiss SonataGwethalyn GrahamWinner of the 1938 Governor Generals Literary Award For Fiction. The novel is set in a girls boarding school in Switzerland in 1936 over a three day period. What makes this novel extraordinary is not just the authors insights into the behaviour of the g...Amazon
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