1987 Governor General's Awards

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
Non-fiction Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album
Poetry Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
Drama John Krizanc, Prague
Children's literature Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army
Children's illustration Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic
  • John Bianchi, Exploring the Night Sky
  • László Gál, The Enchanted Tapestry
  • Shawn Steffler, Flights of Magic
French to English translation Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
  • Sheila Fischman, Heartbreaks Along the Road
  • Anthony Martin-Sperry, Languages and Their Territories
  • Patricia Sillers, The Dragon and Other Laurentian Tales

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Gilles Archambault, L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions
Non-fiction Jean Larose, La petite noirceur
Poetry Fernand Ouellette, Les Heures
Drama Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule
Children's literature David Schinkel and Yves Beauchesne, Le Don
  • Ginette Anfousse, Les catastrophes de Rosalie
  • Denis Côté, Nocturnes pour Jessie
  • Vincent Lauzon, Le pays à l'envers
Children's illustration Darcia Labrosse, Venir au monde
English to French translation Ivan Steenhout and Christiane Teasdale, L'Homme qui se croyait aimé
  • Jean-Pierre Fournier, Jacob Deux-Deux et le dinosaure
  • Ivan Steenhout, La couleur du sang
  • Claudine Vivier, La Dialectique de la reproduction

References
  1. "Governor General's Literary Awards" [table of winners]. online guide to writing in canada (track0.com/ogwc). Retrieved 2015-08-06.
  2. "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.
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