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1936 Governor General's Awards
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Canadian literary award
April 2026
The 1936 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit inaugurated Canada's annual program of Governor General's Awards, late in 1937 recognizing 1936 publications."Late T. B. Roberton Awarded Literary Achievement Prize; Tweedsmuir Raps 'Moderns'". Winnipeg Tribune, November 26, 1937. There were only two categories, fiction and non-fiction, English language only.
The awards were presented by Lord Tweedsmuir, then Governor General of Canada—and, as John Buchan, the noted author of The Thirty-Nine Steps (1915, adapted as a 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock).
Winners
Fiction: Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth
Non-fiction: Thomas Beattie Roberton, TBR: Newspaper Pieces
References
"Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners, 1936–1999]. Online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-19.
External links
20140862 Think of the Earth
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