Editing 1978 Governor General's Awards

{{Short description|Canadian literary award}}
Each winner of the '''1978 [[Governor General's Award]]s for Literary Merit''' was selected by a panel of judges administered by the [[Canada Council|Canada Council for the Arts]].

==English language==
*Fiction: [[Alice Munro]], ''[[Who Do You Think You Are? (book)|Who Do You Think You Are?]]''<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=22 March 1979 |title=Writer awarded her second Governor-General's award |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/495966343/?terms=%22Governor%20General%27s%20Awards%22&match=1 |access-date=14 February 2024 |work=[[The Leader-Post]] |pages=43 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |agency=[[The Canadian Press]]}}</ref>
*Poetry or Drama: [[Patrick Lane (poet)|Patrick Lane]], ''Poems New and Selected''.<ref name=":0" />
*Non-Fiction: [[Roger Caron]], ''[[Go-Boy!]] Memories of a Life Behind Bars''.<ref name=":0" />

==French language==
*Fiction: [[Jacques Poulin]], ''Les grandes marées''.<ref name=":0" />
*Poetry or Drama: [[Gilbert Langevin]], ''Mon refuge est un volcan''.<ref name=":0" />
*Non-Fiction: [[François-Marc Gagnon]], ''Paul-Emile Borduas : Biographie critique et analyse de l'oeuvre''.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
{{Reflist}}{{GovernorGeneralsAwards}}

[[Category:Governor General's Awards]]
[[Category:1978 in Canada|Governor General's Awards]]
[[Category:1978 literary awards]]