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Each winner of the1982 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by theCanada Council for the Arts.

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Guy Vanderhaeghe,Man Descending[1]	Alice Munro,The Moons of Jupiter Chris Scott,Antichthon
Non-fiction	Christopher Moore,Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an Eighteenth-Century Garrison Town[1]	Northrop Frye,The Great Code: The Bible and Literature Christina McCall-Newman,Grits: An Intimate Portrait of The Liberal Party
Poetry	Phyllis Webb,The Vision Tree: Selected Poems[1]	Robert Bringhurst,The Beauty of the Weapons: Selected Poems 1972-1982 Barry Dempster,Fables for Isolated Men Diane Keating,No Birds or Flowers
Drama	John Gray,Billy Bishop Goes to War[1]	Lawrence Jeffery,Clay Betty Lambert,Jennie's Story

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Roger Fournier,Le cercle des arènes[1]	Gaëtan Brulotte,Le surveillant Louis Caron,Les fils de la liberté II: La corne de brume Anne Hébert,Les fous de Bassan
Non-fiction	Maurice Lagueux,Le marxisme des années soixante: une saison dans l'histoire de la pensée critique[1]	Flore Dupriez,La condition féminine et les Pères de l'Église latine
Poetry	Michel Savard,Forages[1]	Alphonse Piché,Dernier profil
Drama	Réjean Ducharme,Ha ha! ...[1]	Marie Laberge,Avec l'hiver qui s'en vient Léo Lévesque,... Quand j'y ai dit ça ... à parti à rire Jovette Marchessault,La terre est trop courte, Violette Leduc

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