In Canada, the 1954 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the eighteenth such awards. The awards in this period had no monetary prize but were an honour for the authors.

Winners

• Fiction: Igor Gouzenko, The Fall of a Titan.
• Poetry or Drama: P.K. Page, The Metal and the Flower.
• Non-Fiction: Hugh MacLennan, Thirty and Three.
• Non-Fiction: A.R.M. Lower, This Most Famous Stream.
• Juvenile: Marjorie Wilkins Campbell, The Nor'westers.

Other Governor General's Awards

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