Governor General's Award for English language fiction

This is a list of Governor General's Award winners for English language fiction.

*1936 - Bertram Brooker, "Think of the Earth"
*1937 - Laura G. Salverson, "The Dark Weaver"
*1938 - Gwethalyn Graham, "Swiss Sonata"
*1939 - Franklin D. McDowell, "The Champlain Road"
*1940 - Ringuet, "Thirty Acres"
*1941 - Alan Sullivan, "Three Came to Ville Marie"
*1942 - G. Herbert Sallans, "Little Man"
*1943 - Thomas H. Raddall, "The Pied Piper of Dipper Creek"
*1944 - Gwethalyn Graham, "Earth and High Heaven"
*1945 - Hugh MacLennan, "Two Solitudes"
*1946 - Winifred Bambrick, "Continental Revue"
*1947 - Gabrielle Roy, "The Tin Flute"
*1948 - Hugh MacLennan, "The Precipice "
*1949 - Philip Child, "Mr. Ames Against Time"
*1950 - Germaine Guèvremont, "The Outlander "
*1951 - Morley Callaghan, "The Loved and the Lost"
*1952 - David Walker, "The Pillar"
*1953 - David Walker, "Digby"
*1954 - Igor Gouzenko, "The Fall of a Titan"
*1955 - Lionel Shapiro, "The Sixth of June"
*1956 - Adele Wiseman, "The Sacrifice"
*1957 - Gabrielle Roy, "Street of Riches"
*1958 - Colin McDougall, "Execution"
*1959 - Hugh MacLennan, "The Watch That Ends the Night"
*1960 - Brian Moore, "The Luck of Ginger Coffey"
*1961 - Malcolm Lowry, "Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place"
*1962 - Kildare Dobbs, "Running to Paradise"
*1963 - Hugh Garner, "Hugh Garner's Best Stories"
*1964 - Douglas LePan, "The Deserter"
*1965 - (none)
*1966 - Margaret Laurence, "A Jest of God"
*1967 - (none)
*1968 - Alice Munro, "Dance of the Happy Shades"
*1969 - Robert Kroetsch, "The Studhorse Man"
*1970 - Dave Godfrey, "The New Ancestors"
*1971 - Mordecai Richler, "St. Urbain's Horseman"
*1972 - Robertson Davies, "The Manticore"
*1973 - Rudy Wiebe, "The Temptations of Big Bear"
*1974 - Margaret Laurence, "The Diviners"
*1975 - Brian Moore, "The Great Victorian Collection"
*1976 - Marian Engel, "Bear"
*1977 - Timothy Findley, "The Wars"
*1978 - Alice Munro, "Who Do You Think You Are?"
*1979 - Jack Hodgins, "The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne"
*1980 - George Bowering, "Burning Water"
*1981 - Mavis Gallant, "Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories"
*1982 - Guy Vanderhaeghe, "Man Descending"
*1983 - Leon Rooke, "Shakespeare's Dog"
*1984 - Josef Skvorecky, "The Engineer of Human Souls"
*1985 - Margaret Atwood, "The Handmaid's Tale"
*1986 - Alice Munro, "The Progress of Love"
*1987 - M.T. Kelly, "A Dream Like Mine"
*1988 - David Adams Richards, "Nights Below Station Street"
*1989 - Paul Quarrington, "Whale Music"
*1990 - Nino Ricci, "Lives of the Saints"
*1991 - Rohinton Mistry, "Such a Long Journey"
*1992 - Michael Ondaatje, "The English Patient"
*1993 - Carol Shields, "The Stone Diaries"
*1994 - Rudy Wiebe, "A Discovery of Strangers"
*1995 - Greg Hollingshead, "The Roaring Girl"
*1996 - Guy Vanderhaeghe, "The Englishman's Boy"
*1997 - Jane Urquhart, "The Underpainter"
*1998 - Diane Schoemperlen, "Forms of Devotion"
*1999 - Matt Cohen, "Elizabeth and After"
*2000 - Michael Ondaatje, "Anil's Ghost"
*2001 - Richard B. Wright, "Clara Callan"
*2002 - Gloria Sawai, "A Song for Nettie Johnson"
*2003 - Douglas Glover, "Elle"
*2004 - Miriam Toews, "A Complicated Kindness"
*2005 - David Gilmour, "A Perfect Night to Go to China"
*2006 - Peter Behrens, "The Law of Dreams"
*2007 - Michael Ondaatje, "Divisadero"