The 1996 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented on November 13, 1996.[1]
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction |  Guy Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman's Boy
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| Non-fiction | John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
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| Poetry | E. D. Blodgett, Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano
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| Drama | Colleen Wagner, The Monument
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| Children's literature | Paul Yee, Ghost Train
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| Children's illustration | Eric Beddows, The Rooster's Gift
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| French to English translation | Linda Gaboriau, Stone and Ashes (Daniel Danis, Cendres de cailloux)
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| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Marie-Claire Blais, Soifs
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| Non-fiction | Michel Freitag, Le Naufrage de l'université – Et autres essais d'épistémologie politique
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| Poetry | Serge Patrice Thibodeau Le Quatuor de l'errance / La Traversée du désert
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| Drama | Normand Chaurette, Le Passage de l'Indiana
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| Children's literature | Gilles Tibo, Noémie – Le Secret de Madame Lumbago
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| Children's illustration | No award presented | |
| English to French translation | Christiane Teasdale, Systèmes de survie – Dialogue sur les fondements moraux du commerce et de la politique
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Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit
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| English-language awards |
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| French-language awards |
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| Awards by year |
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