In Canada, the 1958 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were the twenty-second such awards. The awards in this period were an honour for the authors but had no monetary prize.

Winners

• Fiction: Colin McDougall, Execution.
• Poetry or Drama: James Reaney, A Suit of Nettles.
• Non-Fiction: Pierre Berton, Klondike.
• Non-Fiction: Joyce Hemlow, The History of Fanny Burney.
• Juvenile: Edith L. Sharp, Nkwala.

Other Governor General's Awards

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