Template:Short description Template:More citations needed 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.<ref name=owgc-GG/> 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.<ref name=owgc-CC/>
EnglishEdit
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Template:Blue ribbon M. T. Kelly, A Dream Like Mine | |
| Non-fiction | Template:Blue ribbon Michael Ignatieff, The Russian Album |
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| Poetry | Template:Blue ribbon Gwendolyn MacEwen, Afterworlds |
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| Drama | Template:Blue ribbon John Krizanc, Prague |
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| Children's literature | Template:Blue ribbon Morgan Nyberg, Galahad Schwartz and the Cockroach Army |
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| Children's illustration | Template:Blue ribbon Marie-Louise Gay, Rainy Day Magic |
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| French to English translation | Template:Blue ribbon Patricia Claxton, Enchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle Roy |
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FrenchEdit
| Category | Winner | Nominated |
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| Fiction | Template:Blue ribbon Gilles Archambault, {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} |
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| Non-fiction | Template:Blue ribbon Jean Larose, La petite noirceur |
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| Poetry | Template:Blue ribbon Fernand Ouellette, Les Heures |
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| Drama | Template:Blue ribbon Jeanne-Mance Delisle, Un oiseau vivant dans la gueule |
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| Children's literature | Template:Blue ribbon David Schinkel and Yves Beauchesne, Le Don |
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| Children's illustration | Template:Blue ribbon Darcia Labrosse, Venir au monde |
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| English to French translation | Template:Blue ribbon Ivan Steenhout and Christiane Teasdale, L'Homme qui se croyait aimé |
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