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Each winner of the 1968 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The year was marked by controversy as both Leonard Cohen and Hubert Aquin refused to accept their awards.

1 English Language

Fiction: Alice Munro, Dance of the Happy Shades

Poetry or Drama: Leonard Cohen, Selected Poems 1956-68

Non-Fiction: Mordecai Richler, Cocksure and Hunting Tigers Under Glass

2 French Language

Fiction: Hubert Aquin , Trou de mémoire

Fiction: Marie-Claire Blais, Manuscrits de Pauline Archange

Non-Fiction: Fernand Dumont , Le lieu de l'homme

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