In Canada, the 1944 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the eighth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize and were just an honour for the authors.

Winners

• Fiction: Gwethalyn Graham, Earth and High Heaven.
• Poetry or Drama: Dorothy Livesay, Day and Night.
• Non-Fiction: Dorothy Duncan, Partner in Three Worlds.
• Non-Fiction: Edgar McInnis, The War: Fourth Year.

Other Governor General's Awards

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