Each winner of the 1992 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received C$10,000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
English
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!width=15%|Category
!width=30%|Winner
!width=55%|Nominated
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| align="center"| Fiction
| Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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- Sandra Birdsell, The Chrome Suite
- Archie Crail, The Bonus Deal
- John Steffler, The Afterlife of George Cartwright
- Sheila Watson, Deep Hollow Creek
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| align="center"| Non-fiction
| Maggie Siggins, Revenge of the Land: A Century of Greed, Tragedy and Murder on a Saskatchewan Farm