1957 Governor General's Awards
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The 1957 Governor General's Award
s for Literary Merit were the twenty-first such awards in Canada
. The awards in this period an honour for the authors but had no monetary prize.
Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...
s for Literary Merit were the twenty-first such awards in Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. The awards in this period an honour for the authors but had no monetary prize.
Winners
- Fiction: Gabrielle RoyGabrielle RoyGabrielle Roy, CC, FRSC was a French Canadian author.- Biography :Born in Saint Boniface , Manitoba, Roy was educated at Saint Joseph's Academy...
, Street of Riches. - Poetry or Drama: Jay MacphersonJay MacphersonJean Jay Macpherson is a Canadian lyric poet and scholar. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls her "a member of 'the mythopoeic school of poetry,' who expressed serious religious and philosophical themes in symbolic verse that was often lyrical or comic."-Life:Jay Macpherson was born in London,...
, The Boatman. - Non-Fiction: Bruce HutchisonBruce HutchisonWilliam Bruce Hutchison, was a Canadian author and journalist.Born in Prescott, Ontario, Hutchison was educated in public schools in Victoria, British Columbia. He married Dorothy Kidd McDiarmid in 1925, around the same time that he began his journalism career as a political reporter in Ottawa...
, Canada: Tomorrow's Giant. - Non-Fiction: Thomas H. Raddall, The Path of Destiny.
- Juvenile: Kerry Wood, The Great Chief.