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1973 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1973 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

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
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1972 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1972 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerCivil Elegies and Other PoemsDennis LeeCivil Elegies is Dennis Lees uncompromising exploration of citizenship, both Canadian and human. Eli Mandel has called Civil Elegies one of the most important contemporary books of poetry in our country. It was the winner of the Governor Generals Literar...AmazonLiesJohn Newlove...Amazon
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1972 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1972 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

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
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1971 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1971 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Last SpikePierre BertonIn the four years between 1881 and 1885, Canada was forged into one nation by the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The Last Spike reconstructs the incredible story of how some 2,000 miles of steel crossed the continent in just five years — exactly...Amazon
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1971 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1971 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

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
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1970 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1970 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1970 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerBeach HeadNichol...AmazonStill WaterNichol...AmazonThe cosmic chef: an evening of concreteNichol...AmazonThe True Eventual Story of Billy The KidNichol...AmazonThe Collected Works of Billy the KidMichael OndaatjeDrawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatjes visionary novel traces the legendary outlaws passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the coll...Amazon
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