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FOR NONFICTION 1936-2002 |
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FOR NONFICTION 1936-2002 |
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ANDREW NIKIFORUK
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Probably the most prestigious literary award in Canada, the Governor General's Award is administered by the Canada Council and has been awarded continuously since 1936 even though the number of awards has changed over time. There are now 14 categories awarded in both French and English: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature - Text, Children's Literature - Illustration and Translation. A jury reviews books published by Canadian authors published in Canada or abroad during the previous year (Oct. 1 – Sept. 30) and winners are announced in November. The winners for Nonfiction in English are as follows.
| 2002 | Andrew Nikiforuk | Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil |
| 2001 | Thomas Homer-Dixon | The Ingenuity Gap |
| 2000 | Nega Mezlekia | Notes from the Hyena's Belly |
| 1999 | Marq de Villers | Water |
| 1998 | David Adams Richards | Lines on the Water: A Fisherman's Life on the Miramichi |
| 1997 | Rachel Manley | Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood |
| 1996 | John Ralston Saul | The Unconscious Civilization |
| 1995 | Rosemary Sullivan | Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwan |
| 1994 | John A. Livingston | Rogue Primate |
| 1993 | Karen Connelly | Touch the Dragon |
| 1992 | Maggie Siggins | Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm |
| 1991 | Robert Hunter, Robert Calihoo | Occupied Canada: A Young White Man Discovers His Unsuspected Past |
| 1990 | Stephen Clarkson, Christina McCall | Trudeau and Our Times |
| 1989 | Robert Calder | Willie: The Life of W. Somerset Maugham |
| 1988 | Anne Collins | In the Sleep Room |
| 1987 | Michael Ignatieff | The Russian Album |
| 1986 | Northrop Frye | Northrop Frye on Shakespeare |
| 1985 | Ramsey Cook | The Regenerators: Social Criticism in Late Victorian English Canada |
| 1984 | Sandra Gwyn | The Private Capital: Ambition and Love in the Age of Macdonald and Laurier |
| 1983 | Jeffrey Williams | Byng of Vimy: General and Governor General |
| 1982 | Christopher moore | Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town |
| 1981 | George Calef | Caribou and the Barren-Lands |
| 1980 | Stephen Scobie | McAlmon's Chinese opera |
| 1979 | Maria Tippett | Emily Carr: A Biography |
| 1978 | Roger Caron | Go Boy |
| 1977 | Frank Scott | Essays on the Constitution |
| 1976 | Carl Berger | The Writing of Canadian History |
| 1975 | Marion MacRae, Anthony Adamson | Hallowed Walls |
| 1974 | Charles Ritchie | The Siren Years |
| 1973 | Michael bell | Painters in a New Land |
| 1972 | No Award | |
| 1971 | Pierre Burton | The Last Spike |
| 1970 | No Award | |
| 1969 | No Award | |
| 1968 | No Award | |
| 1967 | Norah Storey | The Oxford Companion to Canadian History and Literature |
| 1966 | George Woodcock | The Crystal Spirit |
| 1965 | James Eayrs | In Defence of Canada |
| 1964 | Phyllis Grosskurth | John Adiington Symonds |
| 1963 | J.M.S. Careless | Brown of the Globe |
| 1962 | Marshall McLuhan | The Gutenberg Galaxy |
| 1961 | T.A. Goudge | The Ascent of life |
| 1960 | Frank H. Underhill | In Search of Canadian Liberalism |
| 1959 | No Award | |
| 1958 | Pierre Burton | Klondike |
| 1958 | Joyce Hemlow | The History of Fannie Burney |
| 1957 | Bruce Hutchinson | Canada: Tomorrow's Giant |
| 1957 | Thomas H. Raddall | The Path of Destiny |
| 1956 | Pierre Burton | The Mysterious North |
| 1956 | Joseph Lister Rutledge | Century of Conflict |
| 1955 | N.J. Berrill | Man's Emerging Mind |
| 1955 | Donald G. Creighton | John A. Macdonald, The Old Chieftan |
| 1954 | Hugh MacLennan | Thirty and Three |
| 1954 | A.R.M. Lower | This Most famous Stream |
| 1953 | N.J. Berrill | Sex and the Nature of Things |
| 1953 | J.M.S. Careless | Canada, A Story of Challenge |
| 1952 | Bruce Hutchison | The Incredible Canadian |
| 1952 | Donald G. Creighton | John A. Macdonald, The Young Politician |
| 1951 | Josephine Phelan | The Ardent Exile |
| 1951 | Frank MacKinnon | The Government of Prince Edward Island |
| 1950 | Marjorie Wilkins Campbell | The Saskatchewan |
| 1950 | W.L. Morton | The Progressive Party in Canada |
| 1949 | Hugh MacLennan | Cross-Country |
| 1949 | R. MacGregor Dawson | Democratic Government in Canada |
| 1948 | Thomas H. Raddall | Halifax, Warden of the North |
| 1948 | C.P. Stacey | The Canadian Army, 1939-1945 |
| 1947 | William Sclaster | Haida |
| 1947 | R. MacGregor Dawson | The Government of Canada |
| 1946 | Frederick Philip Grove | In Search of Myself |
| 1946 | A.R.M. Lower | Colony to Nation |
| 1945 | Evelyn M. Richardson | We Keep a Light |
| 1945 | Ross Munro | Gauntlet to Overlord |
| 1944 | Dorothy Duncan | Partner in Three Worlds |
| 1944 | Edgar McInnes | The War: Fourth Year |
| 1943 | John D. Robins | The Incomplete Anglers |
| 1943 | E.K. Brown | On Canadian Poetry |
| 1942 | Bruce Hutchison | The Unknown Country |
| 1942 | Edgar McInnes | The Unguarded Frontier |
| 1941 | Emily Carr | Klee Wyck |
| 1940 | J.F.C. Wright | Slava Bohu |
| 1939 | Laura G. Salverson | Confessions of an Immigrant's Gaughter |
| 1938 | John Murray Gibbon | Canadian Mosaic |
| 1937 | Stephen Leacock | My Discovery of the West |
| 1936 | T.B. Robertson | T.B.R. - Newspaper Pieces |
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