1982 Governor General's Awards
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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
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Canada Council
The Canada Council for the Arts, commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown Corporation established in 1957 to act as an arts council of the government of Canada, created to foster and promote the study and enjoyment of, and the production of works in, the arts. It funds Canadian artists and...
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Fiction
Winner:- Guy VanderhaegheGuy VanderhaegheGuy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his two Western novels, The Englishman's Boy and The Last Crossing, set in the 19th century American and Canadian West...
, Man DescendingMan DescendingMan Descending is a collection of short stories written by Saskatchewan-born writer Guy Vanderhaeghe. The book was first published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982 and Vanderhaeghe went on to become one of the few first-time authors to win the coveted Governor General's Award for Fiction for this work...
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- Alice MunroAlice MunroAlice Ann Munro is a Canadian short-story writer, the winner of the 2009 Man Booker International Prize for her lifetime body of work, a three-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award for fiction, and a perennial contender for the Nobel Prize...
, The Moons of JupiterThe Moons of JupiterThe Moons of Jupiter is a book of short stories by Alice Munro, published by Macmillan of Canada in 1982. It was nominated for the 1982 Governor General's Award for English Fiction.-Stories:* "Chaddeleys and Flemings I: The Connection"... - Chris Scott, Antichthon
Poetry
Winner:- Phyllis WebbPhyllis WebbPhyllis Webb, is a Canadian poet and radio broadcaster. The Canadian Encyclopedia describes her as "a writer of stature in Canadian letters", and calls her work "brilliantly crafted, formal in its energies and humane in its concern"....
, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
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- Robert BringhurstRobert BringhurstRobert Bringhurst is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He is the author of The Elements of Typographic Style – a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type...
, The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982 - Barry DempsterBarry DempsterBarry Edward Dempster is a Canadian poet and novelist.Dempster was born and raised in Scarborough, Ontario.Two of his collections, Fables For Isolated Men and The Burning Alphabet , were nominated for Governor General's Awards...
, Fables for Isolated Men - Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers
Drama
Winner:- John GrayJohn Gray (playwright)John MacLachlan Gray, OC is a Canadian writer-composer-performer for stage, TV, film, radio and print...
, Billy Bishop Goes to WarBilly Bishop Goes to WarBilly Bishop Goes to War is a Canadian musical, written by John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson. One of the most famous and widely-produced plays in Canadian theatre, it dramatizes the life of Canadian World War I fighter pilot Billy Bishop....
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- Lawrence Jeffery, Clay
- Betty LambertBetty LambertBetty Lambert, born Elizabeth Minnie Lee was a Canadian writer.Lambert was born in Calgary, Canada to Christopher and Bessie Lee , the oldest of three daughters....
, Jennie's Story
Non-fiction
Winner:- Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town
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- Northrop FryeNorthrop FryeHerman Northrop Frye, was a Canadian literary critic and literary theorist, considered one of the most influential of the 20th century....
, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature - Christina McCall-NewmanChristina McCallChristina McCall was a Canadian political writer.McCall studied English at the University of Toronto then spent the next 20 years as a journalist at The Globe and Mail, Saturday Night and Maclean's and as a senior editor at Chatelaine, as a senior political writer and author. She later worked...
, Grits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal Party
Fiction
Winner:- Roger Fournier, Le cercle des arènes
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- Gaëtan BrulotteGaétan Brulotte- Awards :His works have won a number of awards:*1979 - Prix Robert-Cliche, L’emprise*1981 - Prix littéraire Adrienne-Choquette, Le surveillant*1982 - Prix littéraires Radio-Canada*1983 - Prix Jean-Hamelin, Le surveillant- External links :...
, Le surveillant - Louis Caron, Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume
- Anne HébertAnne HébertAnne Hébert, CC, OQ , was a Canadian author and poet. She is a descendant of famed French-Canadian historian Francois-Xavier Garneau, "and has carried on the family literary tradition spectacularly."...
, Les fous de Bassan
Poetry
Winner:- Michel Savard, Forages
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- Alphonse Piché, Dernier profil
Drama
Winner:- Réjean DucharmeRéjean DucharmeRéjean Ducharme is a Quebec novelist and playwright who currently resides in Montreal. He is extremely reclusive and has not appeared at any public functions since his first successful book was published in 1966...
, Ha ha! ...
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- Marie Laberge, Avec l'hiver qui s'en vient
- Léo LévesqueLéo LévesqueLéo Lévesque is a Québécois poet, essayist, and writer born in Montréal. He was a finalist for the 1982 Governor General's Award for Literary Merit, and won $10,000 funding in 1997–98 from the Canada Council for the Arts....
, ... Quand j'y ai dit ça ... à parti à rire - Jovette Marchessault, La terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc
Non-fiction
Winner:- Maurice Lagueux, Le marxisme des années soixante: une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique
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- Flore Dupriez, La condition féminine et les Pères de l'Église latine