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.

English

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending	Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter Chris Scott, Antichthon
Non-fiction	Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town	Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature Christina McCall-Newman, Grits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal Party
Poetry	Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems	Robert Bringhurst, The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982 Barry Dempster, Fables for Isolated Men Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers
Drama	John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War	Lawrence Jeffery, Clay Betty Lambert, Jennie's Story

French

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Roger Fournier, Le cercle des arènes	Gaëtan Brulotte, Le surveillant Louis Caron, Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume Anne Hébert, Les fous de Bassan
Non-fiction	Maurice Lagueux, Le marxisme des années soixante: une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique	Flore Dupriez, La condition féminine et les Pères de l'Église latine
Poetry	Michel Savard, Forages	Alphonse Piché, Dernier profil
Drama	Réjean Ducharme, Ha ha! ...	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

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Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit
English-language awards	Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1937–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration French to English translation
French-language awards	Fiction Non-fiction Poetry (1981–present) Drama (1981–present) Poetry or drama (1959–1980) Children's literature Children's illustration English to French translation
Awards by year	1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Note: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada, the announcement of the 2020 Governor General's Awards has been postponed to early 2021.