Template:Short description Each winner of the 1978 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
English languageEdit
- Fiction: Alice Munro, Who Do You Think You Are?<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>
- Poetry or Drama: 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 languageEdit
- 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" />