Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

1944 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerEarth and High HeavenGwethalyn Graham...Amazon

1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Resurrection of Joseph BourneJack HodginsWhen an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie, nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are sud...Amazon1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistLife Before ManMargaret AtwoodAmazonThe Sweet Second Summer of Kitty MaloneMatt CohenAmazon

1946 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerContinental RevueWinifred Bambrick...Amazon

1947 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Tin Flute (translation)Gabrielle Roy"The Tin Flute," Gabrielle Roys first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roys unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome...Amazon

1948 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe PrecipiceHugh MacLennanThe story of the volatility of a marriage and the inelasticity of two personalities, set against the backdrop of the Second World War....Amazon

1949 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerMr. Ames Against TimePhilip Child...Amazon

1950 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Outlander (translation)Germaine Guèvremont...Amazon

1951 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Loved and the LostMorley CallaghanTo be compared with Chekhov, to be compared with Turgenev, thats what the greatest man of American letters of our time, Edmund Wilson, said when this Morley Callaghan masterpiece appeared in the early fifties. With the story in Montreal, young Peggy Sande...Amazon

1952 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe PillarDavid WalkerAt the birth of the United States, African Americans were excluded from the newly-formed Republic and its churches, which saw them as savage rather than citizen and as heathen rather than Christian. Denied civil access to the basic rights granted to others...Amazon

1953 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerDigbyDavid Walker...Amazon