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Governor General’s Literary Award

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1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerMan DescendingGuy VanderhaegheThese superbly crafted stories reveal an astonishing range, with settings that vary from a farm on the Canadian prairies to Bloomsbury in London, from a high-rise apartment to a mine-shaft. Vanderhaeghe has the uncanny ability to show us the world through ...Amazon1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistAntichthonChris ScottAmazonThe Moons of JupiterAlice MunroAmazon
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1982 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBilly Bishop Goes To War, a play by John Gray with Eric PetersonJohn GrayThis ., updated edition of one of Canadas most successful and enduring dramas, Billy Bishop Goes to War, includes the original Los Angeles Drama Critics Award and Governor Generals Award-winning 1982 musical play, plus the 2010 re-working of the s...Amazon1982 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistClayLawrence JefferyAmazonJennie's StoryBetty LambertAmazon
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1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Collected Poems of F.R. ScottF.R. Scott...Amazon1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistMiramichi Lightning: Collected PoemsAlfred BaileyAmazonThe TheBarry McKinnonAmazon
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1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerCaribou and the Barren-LandsGeorge CalefPhotographic account of the great herds of Barren-ground caribou and their yearly migrations through northern Canada and Alaska....Amazon1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistHugh MacLennan: A Writer's LifeElspeth CameronAmazonThe Young Vincent MasseyClaude BissellAmazon
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1981 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerHome Truths: Selected Canadian StoriesMavis GallantFrom a PEN Award winner, these tales ranging from Depression-era Quebec to contemporary Vancouver offer “irresistible storytelling through and through” (Kirkus Reviews). Canada is one of the worlds most diverse and gorgeous countries, stretching from the ...Amazon
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1981 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerBlood RelationsSharon Pollock...Amazon1981 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistStraight Ahead and Blind DancersCharles TidlerAmazonTheatre of the Film NoirGeorge F. WalkerAmazon
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1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerDiscipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal RestorationJeffrey SimpsonSimpson analyzes the erroneous assumptions of the members of the Progressive Conservative Party, who, conditioned by an extended spell in opposition, could not wield effectively the political power they had won. The Conservatives misfortunes represent a c...Amazon1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistScotland Farewell: The People of the HectorDonald MacKayAmazonThe Chinese: Portrait of a PeopleJohn FraserAmazon
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1980 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerBurning WaterGeorge BoweringA rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouvers search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in recommended lists of postmodern fiction, BC historical fiction, gay fiction and humour....Amazon1980 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistFat WomanLeon RookeAmazonThe Charcoal BurnersSusan MusgraveAmazon
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1979 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThere's a Trick with a Knife I'm Learning to DoMichael OndaatjeSelected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty...Amazon1979 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistA Man to Marry, a Man to BurySusan MusgraveAmazonEmpire, York StreetErin MouréAmazon
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