Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10 000 dollars and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite
  • Archie Crail, The Bonus Deal
  • John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
  • Sheila Watson, Deep Hollow Creek

Poetry

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Evelyn Lau, Oedipal Dreams
  • Laura Lush, Hometown
  • Steve McCaffery, Theory of Sediment
  • Kathleen McCracken, Blue Light, Bay and College

Drama

Winner:

  • John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night

Other Finalists:
  • Daniel Brooks and Guillermo Verdecchia, The Noam Chomsky Lectures
  • Dave Carley, Writing With Our Feet
  • Judith Thompson, Lion in the Streets
  • Dianne Warren, Serpent in the Night Sky

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm

Other Finalists:
  • Michael Bliss, Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal
  • Ken Cuthbertson, Inside: The Biography of John Gunther
  • Michael R. Marrus, Mr. Sam: The Life and Times of Samuel Bronfman

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes

Other Finalists:
  • Margaret Buffie, My Mother's Ghost
  • John Ibbitson, 1812: Jeremy and the General
  • Thomas King, A Coyote Columbus Story
  • Kit Pearson, Looking at the Moon

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales

Other Finalists:
  • Eric Beddows, Zoom Upstream
  • Suzanne Duranceau, Hickory, Dickory, Dock
  • Maryann Kovalski, The Big Storm
  • Mireille Levert, When Jeremiah Found Mrs. Ming

Translation (from French to English)

Winner:

  • Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East

Other Finalists:
  • Neil B. Bishop, Death of the Spider
  • Sheila Fischman, Felicity's Fool
  • Luise von Flotow, Deathly Delights
  • Agnes Whitfield, Divine Diva

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Lise Bissonnette, Marie suivait l'été
  • Louis Lefebvre, Guanahani
  • Gilles Pellerin, Je reviens avec la nuit
  • Louise Simard, La très noble demoiselle

Poetry

Winners:

  • Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra

Other Finalists:
  • Paul Bélanger, Retours suivi de Minuit, l'aube
  • Yves Boisvert, La balance du vent
  • Pierre Ouellet, Fonds suivi de Faix
  • Jean-Noël Pontbriand, Lieux - Passages

Drama

Winner:

  • Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Les petits orteils

Other Finalists:
  • Dominic Champagne, La cité interdite
  • Robert Claing, Anna
  • Marie Laberge, Pierre ou la consolation
  • Marthe Mercure, Tu faisais comme un appel

Non-Fiction

Winner:

  • Pierre Turgeon, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James

Other Finalists:
  • Gilles Boileau, Le silence des Messieurs. Oka, terre indienne
  • Jean Marcel, Pensées, passions et proses
  • Pierre Morency, Lumière des oiseaux
  • Louis Sabourin, Passion d'être, désir d'avoir

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Christiane Duchesne, Victor

Other Finalists:
  • Linda Brousseau, Coups durs pour une sorcière
  • Dominique Demers, Un hiver de tourmente
  • Esther Rochon, L'ombre et le cheval
  • Daniel Sernine, Les rêves d'Argus

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Gilles Tibo, Simon et la ville de carton

Other Finalists:
  • Honey Fox, Le bébé de Lulu
  • Pierre Pratt, Léon sans son chapeau
  • Daniel Sylvestre , Mais qui va trouver le trésor?

Translation (from English to French)

Winner:

  • Jean Papineau, La mémoire postmoderne

Other Finalists:
  • Marie-Luce Constant, Les princes marchands
  • Hervé Juste, Le Canada aux enchères
  • Michèle Marineau, Le monde merveilleux de Marigold

Other Governor General's Awards:

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