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1987 Awards

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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books

1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books Winner and Nominees

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books WinnerRainy Day MagicMarie-Louise GayForced to stay inside on a rainy day, two children imagine that the dark basement is really a jungle and an ocean....Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Young People’s Literature — Illustrated Books ShortlistExploring the Night SkyJohn BianchiAmazonFlights of MagicShawn StefflerAmazonThe Enchanted TapestryLászló GálAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English)

1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Translation (French to English) Winner and Nominees

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) WinnerEnchantment and Sorrow: The Autobiography of Gabrielle RoyPatricia Claxton...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Translation (French to English) ShortlistHeartbreaks Along the RoadSheila FischmanAmazonLanguages and Their TerritoriesAnthony Martin-SperryAmazonThe Dragon and Other Laurentian TalesPatricia SillersAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Poetry Winner and Nominees

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry WinnerAfterworldsGwendolyn MacEwen...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry ShortlistPear Tree PomesRoy KiyookaAmazonQuestions I Asked My MotherDi BrandtAmazonThe Beginning of the Long DashSharon ThesenAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction

1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Non-fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction WinnerThe Russian AlbumMichael IgnatieffWinner of the Royal Society of Literature Award In The Russian Album, Michael Ignatieff chronicles five generations of his Russian family, beginning in 1815. Drawing on family diaries, on the contemplation of intriguing photographs in an old family album, ...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Non-fiction ShortlistBrazilian JournalP.K. PageAmazonUnder Eastern EyesJanice Kulyk KeeferAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction

1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction WinnerA Dream Like MineM.T. KellyConsidering whether it is moral to use radical and violent solutions to stop the destruction of the environment, this dark novel portrays a succession of fights over land rights and pollution in northern Ontario. As tensions increase, a local Canadian Nati...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Fiction ShortlistIn the Skin of a LionMichael OndaatjeAmazonSwann: a mysteryCarol ShieldsAmazonTales from Firozsha BaagRohinton MistryAmazonThe Ring MasterDavid GurrAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Governor General's Literary Award, Governor General's Literary Award - Drama

1987 Governor General’s Literary Award – Drama Winner and Nominees

1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama WinnerPragueJohn Krizanc...Amazon1987 Governor General's Literary Award - Drama ShortlistThe Occupation of Heather RoseWendy LillAmazonWalt and RoyMichael D.C. McKinlayAmazonWhiskey Six CadenzaSharon PollockAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, Hugo Awards, Hugo Awards - Novel

1987 Hugo Awards – Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 Hugo Awards - Novel WinnerSpeaker for the DeadOrson Scott CardIn the aftermath of his terrible war, Ender Wiggin disappeared, and a powerful voice arose: The Speaker for the Dead, who told the true story of the Bugger War. Now, long years later, a second alien race has been discovered, but again the aliens' ways are ...Amazon1987 Hugo Awards - Novel ShortlistBlack GenesisL. Ron HubbardAmazonCount ZeroWilliam GibsonAmazonMarooned in RealtimeVernor VingeAmazonThe Ragged AstronautsBob ShawAmazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction

1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize – Fiction Winner and Nominees

1987 James Tait Black Memorial Prize - Fiction WinnerThe Golden BirdGeorge MacKay BrownThese two long stories are set, like most of George Mackay Brown's work, in Orkney and in a period, the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when the pattern of island life, little changed since Viking times, was beginning to be threatened. The Golden B...Amazon
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1987 Awards, All Book Awards, Book Awards, Book Awards By Year, John W. Campbell, John W. Campbell - Novel

1987 John W. Campbell – Novel Winner and Nominees

1987 John W. Campbell - Novel WinnerA Door Into OceanJoan SlonczewskiA Door into Ocean is the novel upon which the author's reputation as an important SF writer principally rests. A ground-breaking work both of feminist SF and of world-building hard SF, it concerns the Sharers of Shora, a nation of women on a distant moon i...Amazon1987 John W. Campbell - Novel ShortlistSpeaker for the DeadOrson Scott CardAmazonThis Is the Way the World EndsJames MorrowAmazon
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