Each winner of the 1972
Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the
Canada Council for the Arts
The Canada Council for the Arts (french: Conseil des arts du Canada), commonly called the Canada Council, is a Crown corporation established in 1957 as an arts council of the Government of Canada. It acts as the federal government's principal in ...
.
English Language
*Fiction:
Robertson Davies, ''
The Manticore''
*Poetry or Drama:
Dennis Lee, ''Civil Elegies and Other Poems''
*Poetry or Drama:
John Newlove, ''Lies''
French Language
*Fiction:
Antonine Maillet, '
*Poetry or Drama:
Gilles Hénault, '
*Non-Fiction:
Jean Hamelin
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and
Yves Roby, '
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Governor General's Awards
Governor Generals Awards, 1972
1972 literary awards