1957 Governor General's Awards Explained

Fiction: Gabrielle Roy , Street of Riches .
Poetry or Drama: <a href="../Jay_Macpherson/" title="Jay Macpherson was a Canadian lyric poet and scholar.">Jay Macpherson , The Boatman .
Non-Fiction: <a href="../Bruce_Hutchison/" title="Bruce Hutchison was a Canadian writer and journalist.">Bruce Hutchison , Canada: Tomorrow's Giant .
Non-Fiction: <a href="../Thomas_H._Raddall/" title="Thomas Head Raddall was a Canadian writer of history and historical fiction.">Thomas H. Raddall , The Path of Destiny .
Juvenile: <a href="../Kerry_Wood_(author)/" title="Kerry Wood was a Canadian writer, journalist and scriptwriter.">Kerry Wood , The Great Chief .

The 1957 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the twenty-first such awards in Canada. The awards in this period an honour for the authors but had no monetary prize.^[1]