Each winner of the 1978 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.
• Fiction: Jacques Poulin, Les grandes marées. • Poetry or Drama: Gilbert Langevin, Mon refuge est un volcan. • Non-Fiction: François-Marc Gagnon, ''Paul-Emile Borduas : Biographie critique et analyse de l'oeuvre''. == References ==