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.

English Language

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, ""

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"

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Gilles Archambault, " _fr. L'obsédante obèse et autres agressions"

Other Finalists:
*André Major, " _fr. L'Hiver au coeur"
*Jacques Marchand, " _fr. Premier mouvement"
*Francine Noël, " _fr. Myriam première"

Poetry

Winner:
*Fernand Ouellette, "Les Heures"

Other Finalists:
*Hugues Corriveau, "Mobiles"
*Normand de Bellefeuille, "Heureusement, ici il y a 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"

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