DCHP-3

Governor General's Award

DCHP-2 (Jul 2012)

Spelling variants:
Governor-General's Award, GG

n. — Administration

an award bearing the name of the Governor General in the fields of literary, artistic, and social activities.

Type: 1. Origin — Medals for academic achievement were presented by the Governor General as early as 1873. Today, there are about 60 awards and medals that bear the Governor General's name (see Governor General's web reference). The Governor General's Literary Award is the best known of these awards (see the quotations, which, with the exception of the 1989 quotation, all deal with this particular award).
See also ITP Nelson, s.v. "Governor General's Literary Award" and "Governor General's Performing Arts Award", see COD-2, which labels the (literary) award "Cdn".
Often "Governor General's Literary Award" is shortened to Governor General's Award, and GG is another common abbreviation for the awards, see the 2010 quotation.

Quotations

1944
Do not miss this significant new novel. Alan Sullivan won the Governor-General's Award for Three Came to Ville Marie, published in 1941. And From That Day is a magnificent story of the Crucifixion.
1952
Dr. Philip Child, of Trinity College, author of four novels, one a Governor-General Award winner, today said he felt the Massey report had done "a grave injustice" to Canadian literature by insinuating that what had been produced so far was a mere exhibition of a potential talent.
1977
In 1972, Lee set to work revising Civil Elegies, which he'd first published in 1968: it was awarded the Governor General's Award for poetry.
1989
Teaching faculty includes Governor-General's Award-winners Robert Kroetsch and Fred Wah, Seal Book award-winner Tim Wynne-Jones, and award-winning designers Peter Bartl and Robert MacDonald.
1999
This Christmas comedy revived Stickland's career, premiering at the 1994 ATP playRites festival and winning a 1995 Governor General's Award nomination.
2010
Chafe is nothing if not prolific. At 39, he has already written 15 plays and co-authored another 10. Afterimage, however, is only his second publication. His first book, Robert Chafe: Two Plays was also nominated for a GG but didn't win.
2015
It's as if Leblanc told herself that since she won the Governor General's Award, she had better produce another book before she is forgotten.

References

  • ITP Nelson
  • Governor General's website
    • Awards
  • COD-2