1936 Governor General's Awards
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Template:Short description 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.<ref name=moderns>"Late T. B. Roberton Awarded Literary Achievement Prize; Tweedsmuir Raps 'Moderns'". Winnipeg Tribune, November 26, 1937.</ref> There were only two categories, fiction and non-fiction, English language only.<ref name=moderns /><ref name=ogwc-GG/>
The awards were presented by Lord Tweedsmuir, then Governor General of Canada—and, as John Buchan, the noted author of The Thirty-Nine Steps<ref name=moderns /> (1915, adapted as a 1935 film by Alfred Hitchcock).
Winners
- Fiction: Bertram Brooker, Think of the Earth
- Non-fiction: Thomas Beattie Roberton, TBR: Newspaper Pieces