1987 Governor General's Awards

{{Short description|Canadian literary award}}

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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. 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.

English

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!width=15%|Category

!width=30%|Winner

!width=55%|Nominated

align="center"| Fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine

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align="center"| Non-fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album

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align="center"| Poetry

|{{blue ribbon}} Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds

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align="center"| Drama

|{{blue ribbon}} John Krizanc, Prague

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align="center"| Children's literature

|{{blue ribbon}} Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army

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align="center"| Children's illustration

|{{blue ribbon}} Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic

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align="center"| French to English translation

|{{blue ribbon}} Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy

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French

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!width=15%|Category

!width=30%|Winner

!width=55%|Nominated

align="center"| Fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Gilles Archambault, {{Lang|fr|L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions}}

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align="center"| Non-fiction

|{{blue ribbon}} Jean Larose, La petite noirceur

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align="center"| Poetry

|{{blue ribbon}} Fernand Ouellette, Les Heures

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align="center"| Drama

|{{blue ribbon}} Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule

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align="center"| Children's literature

|{{blue ribbon}} David Schinkel and Yves Beauchesne, Le Don

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align="center"| Children's illustration

|{{blue ribbon}} Darcia Labrosse, Venir au monde

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align="center"| English to French translation

|{{blue ribbon}} Ivan Steenhout and Christiane Teasdale, L'Homme qui se croyait aimé

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References

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[http://www.track0.com/ogwc/resources/awardscancouncil.html "Canada Council Children's Literature Awards"] [for English-language books].
  [http://www.track0.com/ogwc/resources/awardscancouncil_f.html "Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards"].
online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-06.

[http://www.track0.com/ogwc/resources/awardsgovgen.html "Governor General's Literary Awards"] [table of winners]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-06.

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