1956 Governor General's Awards

Fiction: <a href="../../../../articles/a/d/e/Adele_Wiseman_77c4.html" title="Adele Wiseman">Adele Wiseman , The Sacrifice .
Poetry or Drama: <a href="../../../../articles/r/o/b/Robert_A.D._Ford_8d2a.html" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert A.D. Ford">Robert A.D. Ford , A Window on the North .
Non-Fiction: <a href="../../../../articles/p/i/e/Pierre_Berton_ca87.html" title="Pierre Berton">Pierre Berton , The Mysterious North .
Non-Fiction: Joseph Lister Rutledge, Century of Conflict .
Juvenile: Farley Mowat , <a href="../../../../articles/l/o/s/Lost_in_the_Barrens_0d38.html" title="Lost in the Barrens">Lost in the Barrens .

In Canada, the 1956 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the twentieth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour for the authors.

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