In Canada, the 1951 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the fifteenth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize and were just an honour for the authors.

Winners

• Fiction: Morley Callaghan, The Loved and the Lost.
• Poetry or Drama: Charles Tory Bruce, The Mulgrave Road.
• Non-Fiction: Josephine Phelan, The Ardent Exile.
• Non-Fiction: Frank MacKinnon, The Government of Prince Edward Island.
• Juvenile: John Francis Hayes, A Land Divided.

Other Governor General's Awards

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