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Governor General’s Literary Award

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1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1968 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerCocksureMordecai RichlerIn the swinging culture of sixties’ London, Canadian Mortimer Griffin is a beleaguered editor adrift in a sea of hypocrisy and deceit. Alone in a world where nobody shares his values but everyone wants the same things, Mortimer must navigate the currents o...AmazonDance of the Happy ShadesAlice MunroFifteen stories about life in rural Ontario deal with adolescence, loneliness, broken hearts, an abandoned wife, family relations, blind dates, and an aspiring writer...Amazon
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1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1966 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerThe Circle GameMargaret AtwoodThe appearance of Margaret Atwoods first major collection of poetry marked the beginning of a truly outstanding career in Canadian and international letters. The voice in these poems is as witty, vulnerable, direct, and incisive as weve come to know in l...Amazon
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1966 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1966 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Jest of GodMargaret LaurenceIn this celebrated novel, Margaret Laurence writes with grace, power, and deep compassion about Rachel Cameron, a woman struggling to come to terms with love, with death, with herself and her world. Trapped in a milieu of deceit and pettiness – her own and...Amazon
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1965 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1965 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerIn Defence of CanadaJames EayrsVolume III of this outstanding history of Canadas defence and foreign policy is a study of Ottawas thinking and decisions during the closing years of the Second World War and the opening years of the cold war. Eayrs presents both the events and the perso...Amazon
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