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Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $10,000 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.
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient [1] |
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| Non-fiction | Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm [1] |
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| Poetry | Lorna Crozier, Inventing the Hawk [1] |
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| Drama | John Mighton, Possible Worlds and A Short History of Night |
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| Children's literature | Julie Johnston, Hero of Lesser Causes |
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| Children's illustration | Ron Lightburn, Waiting for the Whales |
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| French to English translation | Fred A. Reed, Imagining the Middle East (Thierry Hentsch, L'Orient imaginaire) |
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| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Anne Hébert, L'enfant chargé de songes |
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| Non-fiction | Pierre Turgeon, La Radissonie. Le pays de la baie James |
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| Poetry | Gilles Cyr, Andromède attendra |
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| Drama | Louis-Dominique Lavigne, Les petits orteils |
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| Children's literature | Christiane Duchesne, Victor |
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| Children's illustration | Gilles Tibo, Simon et la ville de carton |
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| English to French translation | Jean Papineau, La mémoire postmoderne (Mark A. Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art) |
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