Homepage awardsarchive_e47t1f Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction 2019 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Five Wives Joan Thomas Amazon 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Red Word Sarah Henstra Amazon 2017 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction We’ll All Be Burnt in Our Beds Some Night Joel Thomas Hynes Amazon 2016 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien Amazon 2015 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Daddy Lenin and Other Stories Guy Vanderhaeghe Amazon 2014 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Back of the Turtle Thomas King Amazon 2013 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Luminaries Eleanor Catton Amazon 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Purchase Linda Spalding Amazon 2011 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Sisters Brothers Patrick deWitt Amazon 2010 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Cool Water Dianne Warren Amazon 2009 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Mistress of Nothing Kate Pullinger Amazon 2008 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Origin of Species Nino Ricci Amazon 2007 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Divisadero Michael Ondaatje Amazon 2006 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Law of Dreams Peter Behrens Amazon 2005 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction A Perfect Night to Go to China David Gilmour Amazon 2004 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction A Complicated Kindness Miriam Toews Amazon 2003 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Elle Douglas Glover Amazon 2002 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction A Song for Nettie Johnson Gloria Sawai Amazon 2001 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Clara Callan Richard B. 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Alice Munro Amazon 1977 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Wars Timothy Findley Amazon 1976 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Bear Marian Engel Amazon 1975 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Great Victorian Collection Brian Moore Amazon 1974 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Diviners Margaret Laurence Amazon 1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Temptations of Big Bear Rudy Wiebe Amazon 1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Manticore Robertson Davies Amazon 1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction St. Urbain’s Horseman Mordecai Richler Amazon 1970 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The New Ancestors Dave Godfrey Amazon 1969 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Studhorse Man Robert Kroetsch Amazon 1968 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Cocksure Mordecai Richler Amazon 1966 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction A Jest of God Margaret Laurence Amazon 1964 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Deserter Douglas LePan Amazon 1963 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Hugh Garner’s Best Stories Hugh Garner Amazon 1961 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place Malcolm Lowry Amazon 1960 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Luck of Ginger Coffey Brian Moore Amazon 1959 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Watch that Ends the Night Hugh MacLennan Amazon 1958 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Execution Colin McDougall Amazon 1957 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Street of Riches (translation) Gabrielle Roy Amazon 1956 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Sacrifice Adele Wiseman Amazon 1955 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Sixth of June Lionel Shapiro Amazon 1954 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Fall of a Titan Igor Gouzenko Amazon 1953 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Digby David Walker Amazon 1952 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Pillar David Walker Amazon 1951 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Loved and the Lost Morley Callaghan Amazon 1950 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Outlander (translation) Germaine Guèvremont Amazon 1949 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Mr. Ames Against Time Philip Child Amazon 1948 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Precipice Hugh MacLennan Amazon 1947 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Tin Flute (translation) Gabrielle Roy Amazon 1946 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Continental Revue Winifred Bambrick Amazon 1945 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Two Solitudes Hugh MacLennan Amazon 1944 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Earth and High Heaven Gwethalyn Graham Amazon 1943 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek Thomas H. Raddall Amazon 1942 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Little Man G. Herbert Sallans Amazon 1941 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Three Came to Ville Marie Alan Sullivan Amazon 1940 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Thirty Acres (translation) Ringuet (pseud.) Amazon 1939 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Champlain Road Franklin D. McDowell Amazon 1938 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Swiss Sonata Gwethalyn Graham Amazon 1937 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction The Dark Weaver Laura G. Salverson Amazon 1936 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Think of The Earth Bertram Brooker Amazon