The 1936 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit inaugurated Canada's annual program of Governor General's Awards, late in 1937 recognizing 1936 publications."Late T. B. Roberton Awarded Literary Achievement Prize; Tweedsmuir Raps 'Moderns'". '' Winnipeg Tribune'', November 26, 1937. There were only two categories, fiction and non-fiction, English language only. The awards were presented by

Lord Tweedsmuir John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation. After a brief legal career, ...

, then Governor General of Canada—and, as John Buchan, the noted author of '' The Thirty-Nine Steps'' (1915, adapted as a 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock).

Winners

* Fiction:

Bertram Brooker Bertram Richard Brooker, (March 31, 1888 – March 22, 1955) was one of Canada's pioneer abstract painters.Joan Murray. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century'. Dundurn; November 1999. . p. 40-41. A self-taught polymath, in addition to being a ...

, '' Think of the Earth'' * Non-fiction: Thomas Beattie Roberton, ''TBR: Newspaper Pieces''

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