Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction

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

1955 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Sixth of JuneLionel Shapiro...Amazon

1970 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe New AncestorsDave Godfrey...Amazon

1971 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerSt. Urbain's HorsemanMordecai RichlerSt. Urbains Horseman is a complex, moving, and wonderfully comic evocation of a generation consumed with guilt – guilt at not joining every battle, at not healing every wound. Thirty-seven-year-old Jake Hersh is a film director of modest success, a faithf...Amazon

1972 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe ManticoreRobertson DaviesThe Manticore is a fascinating exploration, by an exquisite stylist, of those regions beyond reason where monsters live. David Staunton, the son of Percy Boyd Staunton, travels to Switzerland. Traumatized by his fathers death and plagued by a lifetime of ...Amazon

1973 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Temptations of Big BearRudy WiebeEarly in his writing career, Rudy Wiebes imagination was caught by a heroic character of Cree and Ojibwa ancestry whose birthplace was within twenty-five miles of where Wiebe himself was born 110 years later. The mans name translated into English was Big...Amazon

1974 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe DivinersMargaret LaurenceMorag Gunn grows up in a small town on the Canadian prairie, escapes from an unhappy marriage, and returns to rural Canada in hopes of coming to terms with the past...Amazon

1975 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe Great Victorian CollectionBrian MooreSet in a fantastic, surreal world, The Great Victorian Collection is a fascinating exploration of the disturbing, intangible nature of reality. "Moore is a brilliant storyteller, a novelist of great subtlety and depth....Amazon

1976 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerBearMarian EngelA lonely woman journeys toward inner freedom and strengths and a sense of communion with all living creatures...Amazon

1977 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerThe WarsTimothy FindleyIn 1915, Robert Ross, a young Canadian, enlists in the army as an officer. His experiences of life in a training camp, of the trenches in Europe, and with death are vividly told....Amazon