1986 Governor General's Awards

Each winner of the 1986 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts.

The four Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes, two each for children's book writers and illustrators, were outside the Governor General's Awards program for the last time.[1] For Children's Literature Prize winners 1975 to 1986, see "Children's literature" (2) and "Children's illustration" (2) in the footer navigation box.

Two awards for literary translation were also included, bringing the number of Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit from 8 in 1986 to 14 in 1987.[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Alice Munro, The Progress of Love
Non-fiction Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Poetry Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy
Drama Sharon Pollock, Doc

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Yvon Rivard, Les silences du corbeau
Non-fiction Régine Robin, Le réalisme socialiste: une esthétique impossible
  • Marcel Fournier, L'entrée dans la modernité: science, culture et société au Québec
  • René Major, De l'élection: Freud face aux idéologies américaine, allemande et soviétique
Poetry Cécile Cloutier, L'écouté
Drama Anne Legault, La visite des sauvages
  • Normand Chaurette, Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des géologues
  • Yves Desgagnés and Louise Roy, Les nouilles
  • Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Le Titanic

References
  1. "Canada Council Children's Literature Awards" [for English-language books].
      "Canada Council Children's Literature in French Awards".
    online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  2. "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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