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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.

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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.

Fiction

Winner:

  • M.T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine
  • Other Finalists:

  • David Gurr, The Ring Master
  • Rohinton Mistry, Tales from Firozsha Baag
  • Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
  • Carol Shields, Swann: A Mystery
  • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds
  • Other Finalists:

  • Di Brandt, Questions I Asked My Mother
  • Roy Kiyooka, Pear Tree Pomes
  • Sharon Thesen, The Beginning of the Long Dash
  • Drama

    Winner:

  • John Krizanc, Prague
  • Other Finalists:

  • Wendy Lill, The Occupation of Heather Rose
  • Michael D.C. McKinlay, Walt and Roy
  • Sharon Pollock, Whiskey Six Cadenza
  • Non-Fiction

    Winner:

  • Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album
  • Other Finalists:

  • Janice Kulyk Keefer, Under Eastern Eyes
  • P. K. Page, Brazilian Journal
  • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army
  • Other Finalists:

  • Welwyn Wilton Katz, False Face
  • Donn Kushner, A Book Dragon
  • Russell McRae, Going to the Dogs
  • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic
  • Other Finalists:

  • John Bianchi, Exploring the Night Sky
  • László Gál, The Enchanted Tapestry
  • Shawn Steffler, Flights of Magic
  • Translation (French to English)

    Winner:

  • Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy
  • Other Finalists:

  • Sheila Fischman, Heartbreaks Along the Road
  • Anthony Martin-Sperry, Languages and Their Territories
  • Patricia Sillers, The Dragon and Other Laurentian Tales
  • Fiction

    Winner:

  • Gilles Archambault, L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions
  • Other Finalists:

  • André Major, L'Hiver au coeur
  • Jacques Marchand, Premier mouvement
  • Francine Noël, Myriam première
  • Poetry

    Winner:

  • Fernand Ouellette, Les Heures
  • Other Finalists:

  • Hugues Corriveau, Mobiles
  • Normand de Bellefeuille, Heureusement, ici il y à la guerre
  • Gérald Godin, Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler
  • Drama

    Winner:

  • Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule
  • Other Finalists:

  • Suzanne Aubry, La Nuit des p'tits couteaux
  • Marie Laberge, Oublier
  • Michel Tremblay, Le vrai monde?
  • Non-Fiction

    Winner:

  • Jean Larose, La petite noirceur
  • Other Finalists:

  • Lise Bissonnette, La passion du présent
  • Marcel Trudel, Mémoire d'un autre siècle
  • Children's Literature – Text

    Winner:

  • David Schinkel and Yves Beauchesne, Le Don
  • Other Finalists:

  • Ginette Anfousse, Les catastrophes de Rosalie
  • Denis Côté, Nocturnes pour Jessie
  • Vincent Lauzon, Le pays à l'envers
  • Children's Literature – Illustration

    Winner:

  • Darcia Labrosse, Venir au monde
  • Other Finalists:

  • Hélène Desputeaux, Bonne fête Madeleine
  • Stéphane Poulin, Les animaux en hiver
  • Gilles Tibo, Annabel Lee
  • Translation (English to French)

    Winner:

  • Ivan Steenhout and Christiane Teasdale, L'Homme qui se croyait aimé
  • Other Finalists:

  • Jean-Pierre Fournier, Jacob Deux-Deux et le dinosaure
  • Ivan Steenhout, La couleur du sang
  • Claudine Vivier, La Dialectique de la reproduction
  • References

    1987 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia