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The Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in English. Since 1987[1] it is one of fourteen Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit, seven each for creators of English- and French-language books. Originally presented by the Canadian Authors Association,[clarification needed] the Governor General's Awards program became a project of the Canada Council for the Arts in 1959.[2]
The program was created in 1937 and inaugurated that November for 1936 publications in two English-language categories, conventionally called the 1936 Governor General's Awards.[1] Beginning in 1942 there were two winners annually, with separate awards presented for creative non-fiction and academic non-fiction;[3] however, this was discontinued after the 1958 awards, and then returned to a single non-fiction category.
The winners alone were announced until 1979, when Canada Council released in advance a shortlist of three nominees. Since then, the advance shortlist has numbered three to five.
Winners and nominees
1930s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1936 | Thomas Beattie Roberton | TBR: Newspaper Pieces |
| 1937 | Stephen Leacock | My Discovery of the West |
| 1938 | John Murray Gibbon | Canadian Mosaic |
| 1939 | Laura Salverson | Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter |
1940s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | J. F. C. Wright | Slava Bohu |
| 1941 | Emily Carr | Klee Wyck |
| 1942 | Bruce Hutchison | The Unknown Country |
| Edgar McInnis | The Unguarded Frontier | |
| 1943 | E. K. Brown | On Canadian Poetry |
| John D. Robins | The Incomplete Anglers | |
| 1944 | Dorothy Duncan | Partner in Three Worlds |
| Edgar McInnis | The War: Fourth Year | |
| 1945 | Ross Munro | Gauntlet to Overlord |
| Evelyn M. Richardson | We Keep a Light | |
| 1946 | Frederick Philip Grove | In Search of Myself |
| Arthur R. M. Lower | Colony to Nation | |
| 1947 | William Sclater | Haida |
| R. MacGregor Dawson | The Government of Canada | |
| 1948 | Thomas H. Raddall | Halifax, Warden of the North |
| C. P. Stacey | The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 | |
| 1949 | Hugh MacLennan | Cross-country |
| R. MacGregor Dawson | Democratic Government in Canada |
1950s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | The Saskatchewan |
| W. L. Morton | The Progressive Party in Canada | |
| 1951 | Frank MacKinnon | The Government of Prince Edward Island |
| Josephine Phelan | The Ardent Exile | |
| 1952 | Donald G. Creighton | John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician |
| Bruce Hutchison | The Incredible Canadian | |
| 1953 | J. M. S. Careless | Canada, A Story of Challenge |
| N. J. Berrill | Sex and the Nature of Things | |
| 1954 | Hugh MacLennan | Thirty and Three |
| Arthur R. M. Lower | This Most Famous Stream | |
| 1955 | N. J. Berrill | Man's Emerging Mind |
| Donald G. Creighton | John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftain | |
| 1956 | Pierre Berton | The Mysterious North |
| Joseph Lister Rutledge | Century of Conflict | |
| 1957 | Thomas H. Raddall | The Path of Destiny |
| Bruce Hutchison | Canada: Tomorrow's Giant | |
| 1958 | Pierre Berton | Klondike |
| Joyce Hemlow | The History of Fanny Burney | |
| 1959 | No award presented | |
1960s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | Frank H. Underhill | In Search of Canadian Liberalism |
| 1961 | T. A. Goudge | The Ascent of Life |
| 1962 | Marshall McLuhan | The Gutenberg Galaxy |
| 1963 | J.M.S. Careless | Brown of the Globe |
| 1964 | Phyllis Grosskurth | John Addington Symonds |
| 1965 | James Eayrs | In Defence of Canada |
| 1966 | George Woodcock | The Crystal Spirit: A Study of George Orwell |
| 1967 | Norah Story | The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature |
| 1968 | Mordecai Richler | Hunting Tigers Under Glass |
| 1969 | No award presented | |
1970s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1970 | No award presented | |
| 1971 | Pierre Berton | The Last Spike |
| 1972 | No award presented | |
| 1973 | Michael Bell | Painters in a New Land |
| 1974 | Charles Ritchie | The Siren Years |
| 1975 | Marion MacRae and Anthony Adamson | Hallowed Walls |
| 1976 | Carl Berger | The Writing of Canadian History |
| 1977 | Frank Scott | Essays on the Constitution |
| 1978 | Roger Caron | Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars |
| 1979 | Maria Tippett | Emily Carr |
| Robert Bothwell and William Kilbourn | C.D. Howe | |
| Larry Pratt and John Richards | Prairie Capitalism | |
1980s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Jeffrey Simpson | Discipline of Power: The Conservative Interlude and the Liberal Restoration |
| John Fraser | The Chinese: Portrait of a People | |
| Donald MacKay | Scotland Farewell: The People of the Hector | |
| 1981 | George Calef | Caribou and the Barren-Lands |
| Claude Bissell | The Young Vincent Massey | |
| Elspeth Cameron | Hugh MacLennan: A Writer's Life | |
| 1982 | 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 | |
| 1983 | Jeffery Williams | Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General |
| Ken Dryden | The Game | |
| H. S. Ferns | Reading from Left to Right: One Man's Political History | |
| 1984 | Sandra Gwyn | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
| Bob Beal and Rod Macleod | Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion | |
| Graham Fraser | P.Q.: René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois in Power | |
| 1985 | Ramsay Cook | The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada |
| Michael D. Behiels | Prelude to Quebec's Quiet Revolution: Liberalism versus Neo-nationalism | |
| John Herd Thompson | Canada 1922-1939: Decades of Discord | |
| P. B. Waite | The Man from Halifax: Sir John Thompson, Prime Minister | |
| 1986 | Northrop Frye | Northrop Frye on Shakespeare |
| Claude Bissell | The Imperial Canadian | |
| Phyllis Grosskurth | Melanie Klein | |
| Witold Rybczynski | Home | |
| 1987 | Michael Ignatieff | The Russian Album |
| Janice Kulyk Keefer | Under Eastern Eyes | |
| P. K. Page | Brazilian Journal | |
| 1988 | Anne Collins | In the Sleep Room |
| Pierre Berton | The Arctic Grail | |
| Alan Borovoy | When Freedoms Collide | |
| Edith Iglauer | Fishing with John | |
| 1989 | Robert Calder | Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham |
| Janice Boddy | Wombs and Alien Spirits | |
| Robert MacNeil | Wordstruck | |
| Dale A. Russell | An Odyssey in Time: The Dinosaurs of North America |
1990s
| Year | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Stephen Clarkson and Christina McCall | Trudeau and Our Times |
| Timothy Findley | Inside Memory: Pages from a Writer's Workbook | |
| Eugene Forsey | A Life on the Fringe: The Memoirs of Eugene Forsey | |
| Ron Graham | God's Dominion: A Sceptic's Quest | |
| James King | The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read | |
| 1991 | Robert Hunter and Robert Calihoo | Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past |
| Northrop Frye | Words With Power | |
| Kristjana Gunnars | Zero Hour | |
| D. L. MacDonald | Poor Polidori: A Critical Biography of the Author of "The Vampyre" | |
| Rosemary Sullivan | By Heart: Elizabeth Smart, A Life | |
| 1992 | Maggie Siggins | Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm |
| Michael Bliss | Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal | |
| Ken Cuthbertson | Inside: The Biography of John Gunther | |
| Michael R. Marrus | Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman | |
| 1993 | Karen Connelly | Touch the Dragon |
| Marq de Villiers | The Heartbreak Grape: A Journey in Search of the Perfect Pinot Noir | |
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