Canadian Literary Awards
1930s

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Winners of Canadian literary awards in the 1930s.

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1939


Governor General's Literary Awards

Fiction
Franklin D. McDowell – The Champlain Road
Non-fiction
Laura G. Salverson – Confessions of an Immigrant's Daughter
Poetry
Arthur S. Bourinot – Under the Sun

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Wilfrid Bovey

1938


Governor General's Literary Awards

Fiction
Gwethalyn Graham – Swiss Sonata
Non-fiction
John Murray Gibbon – Canadian Mosaic
Poetry
Kenneth Leslie – By Stubborn Stars

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Mazo De La Roche

1937


Governor General's Literary Awards

Fiction
Laura G. Salverson – The Dark Weaver
Non-fiction
Stephen Leacock – My Discovery of the West
Poetry
E.J. Pratt – The Fable of the Goats

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Stephen B. Leacock

1936


Governor General's Literary Awards

Fiction
Bertram Brooker – Think of The Earth
Non-fiction
T.B. Roberton – T.B.R. - newspaper pieces

Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Pelham Edgar

1935


Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Edouard Montpetit

1934


Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Frederick Philip Grove

1932


Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Archibald MacMechan

1930


Lorne Pierce Medal

Lorne Pierce Medal
Sir Andrew Macphail