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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 Blue ribbon Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending
Non-fiction Blue ribbon Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town
Poetry Blue ribbon Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems
Drama Blue ribbon John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War
  • Lawrence Jeffery, Clay
  • Betty Lambert, Jennie's Story

French

Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Michel Savard, Forages
  • Alphonse Piché, Dernier profil
Drama Blue ribbon 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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