1946 Governor General's Awards
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The 1946 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the eleventh rendition of the Governor General's Awards, Canada's annual national awards program which then comprised literary awards alone. The awards recognized Canadian writers for new English-language works published in Canada during 1946 and were presented in 1947. There were no cash prizes.[citation needed]
The 1946 awards were announced on April 19, 1947, in Toronto, Ontario.[1] As every year from 1942 to 1948, there two awards for non-fiction, and four awards in the three established categories, which recognized English-language works only.[2]
- Fiction: Winifred Bambrick, Continental Revue
- Poetry or drama: Robert Finch, Poems
- Non-fiction: Frederick Philip Grove, In Search of Myself
- Non-fiction: Arthur R. M. Lower, Colony to Nation