1982 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1982 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Table of contents

1 English Language

1.1 Fiction
1.2 Poetry
1.3 Drama
1.4 Nonfiction

2 French Language

2.5 Fiction
2.6 Poetry
2.7 Drama
2.8 Nonfiction

3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending

Other FInalists:

Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter
Chris Scott, Antichthon

Poetry

Winner:

Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems

Other Finalists:

Robert Bringhurst, The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982
Barry Dempster, Fables for Isolated Men
Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers

Drama

Winner:

John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War

Other Finalists:

Lawrence Jeffery, Clay
Betty Lambert, Jennie's Story

Nonfiction

Winner:

Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town

Other Finalists:

Northrop Frye , The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
Christina McCall-Newman , Grits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal Party

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Roger Fournier, Le cercle des arènes

Other Finalists:

Gaëtan Brulotte, Le surveillant
Louis Caron, Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume
Anne Hébert, Les fous de Bassan

Poetry

Winner:

Michel Savard, Forages

Other Finalist:

Alphonse Piché, Dernier profil

Drama

Winner:

Réjean Ducharme, Ha ha! ...

Other Finalists:

Marie Laberge, Avec l'hiver qui s'en vient
Léo Lévesque, ... Quand j'y ai dit ça ... à parti à rire
Jovette Marchessault, La terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc

Nonfiction

Winner:

Maurice Lagueux , Le marxisme des années soixante: une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique

Other Finalist:

Flore Dupriez , La condition féminine et les Pères de l'Église latine

Other Governor General's Awards:

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