Five-time Goveror General’s Award winner Hugh MacLennan studied at Dalhousie, Oxford and Princeton universities before becoming a teacher at Lower Canada College in Montreal.

His best-known novel is Two Solitudes (1945), an allegory for the tensions between English and French Canadians. It won him his first Governor General’s Award for Fiction. The Precipice (1948), won him his second GG award; his third was for a collection of essays entitled Cross Country (1949).

MacLennan began teaching at McGill University in 1951. In 1954, his essay collection, Thirty and Three, again won him the Governor General’s Award for Non-Fiction.

In 1959, MacLennan published The Watch That Ends the Night, for which he received his final Governor General’s Award.

He became a Companion of the Order of Canada in 1967, and in 1985, was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec.

MacLennan continued to write and publish work until his death in 1990.

Books by Hugh MacLennan

Two Solitudes

The Precipice

Cross Country

Thirty and Three

Barometer Rising

Each Man's Son

Voices in Time

Oxyrhynchus : an Economic and Social Study

Canadian Unity and Quebec

The Future of the Novel as an Art Form

Scotchman's Return and Other Essays

Seven Rivers of Canada

On Being a Maritime Writer

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh

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