1987 Governor General's Awards

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Each winner of the 1987 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit received $5000 and a medal from the Governor General of Canada. The winners and nominees were selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit nominally increased in number from 8 in 1986 to 14 in 1987, with the addition of four awards for children's book writing and illustration and two awards for translation.^[1] The four Children's Literature awards, however, were simply the four annual Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes (1975 to 1986) under a new name.^[2]

English[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine	David Gurr, The Ring Master Rohinton Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion Carol Shields, Swann: A Mystery
Non-fiction	Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album	Janice Kulyk Keefer, Under Eastern Eyes P. K. Page, Brazilian Journal
Poetry	Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds	Di Brandt, Questions I Asked My Mother Roy Kiyooka, Pear Tree Pomes Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash
Drama	John Krizanc, Prague	Wendy Lill, The Occupation of Heather Rose , Walt and Roy Sharon Pollock, Whiskey Six Cadenza
Children's literature	Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army	Welwyn Wilton Katz, False Face Donn Kushner, A Book Dragon , Going to the Dogs
Children's illustration	Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic	, Exploring the Night Sky , The Enchanted Tapestry , Flights of Magic
French to English translation	Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy	Sheila Fischman, Heartbreaks Along the Road , Languages and Their Territories , The Dragon and Other Laurentian Tales

French[]

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Gilles Archambault, L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions	André Major, L'Hiver au coeur , Premier mouvement Francine Noël, Myriam première
Non-fiction	, La petite noirceur	Lise Bissonnette, La passion du présent Marcel Trudel, Mémoire d'un autre siècle
Poetry	Fernand Ouellette, Les Heures	, Mobiles Normand de Bellefeuille, Heureusement, ici il y à la guerre Gérald Godin, Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler
Drama	Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule	Suzanne Aubry, La Nuit des p'tits couteaux Marie Laberge, Oublier Michel Tremblay, Le vrai monde?
Children's literature	and , Le Don	Ginette Anfousse, Les catastrophes de Rosalie , Nocturnes pour Jessie , Le pays à l'envers
Children's illustration	, Venir au monde	Hélène Desputeaux, Bonne fête Madeleine Stéphane Poulin, Les animaux en hiver , Annabel Lee
English to French translation	and , L'Homme qui se croyait aimé	, Jacob Deux-Deux et le dinosaure , La couleur du sang , La Dialectique de la reproduction

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