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.

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1 English Language 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Poetry 1.3 Drama 1.4 Non-fiction 2 French Language 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Drama 2.4 Non-fiction 3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Guy Vanderhaeghe, Man Descending

Other FInalists:

• Alice Munro, The Moons of Jupiter
• Chris Scott, Antichthon

Poetry

Winner:

• Phyllis Webb, The Vision Tree: Selected Poems

Other Finalists:

• Robert Bringhurst, The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982
• Barry Dempster, Fables for Isolated Men
• Diane Keating, No Birds or Flowers

Drama

Winner:

• John Gray, Billy Bishop Goes to War

Other Finalists:

• Lawrence Jeffery, Clay
• Betty Lambert, Jennie's Story

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Christopher Moore, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth- Century Garrison Town

Other Finalists:

• Northrop Frye, The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
• Christina McCall-Newman, Grits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal Party

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Roger Fournier, Le cercle des arènes

Other Finalists:

• Gaëtan Brulotte, Le surveillant
• Louis Caron, Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume
• Anne Hébert, Les fous de Bassan

Poetry

Winner:

• Michel Savard, Forages

Other Finalist:

• Alphonse Piché, Dernier profil

Drama

Winner:

• Réjean Ducharme, Ha ha! ...

Other Finalists:

• 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

Non-fiction

Winner:

• Maurice Lagueux, Le marxisme des années soixante: une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique

Other Finalist:

• Flore Dupriez, La condition féminine et les Pères de l'Église latine

Other Governor General's Awards:

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