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{{Unreferenced|date=December 2009}}Each winner of the 1986 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit was selected by a panel of judges administered by the Canada Council for the Arts. The four Canada Council Children's Literature Prizes, two each for children's book writers and illustrators, were outside the Governor General's Awards program for the last time.[ For Children's Literature Prize winners 1975 to 1986, see "Children's literature" (2) and "Children's illustration" (2) in the footer navigation box.] Two awards for literary translation were also included, bringing the number of Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit from 8 in 1986 to 14 in 1987. English| Category | Winner | Nominated | | Fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Alice Munro, The Progress of Love- Lois Braun, A Stone Watermelon
- John Metcalf, Adult Entertainment
- Aritha van Herk, No Fixed Address
| | Non-fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare- Claude Bissell, The Imperial Canadian
- Phyllis Grosskurth, Melanie Klein
- Witold Rybczynski, Home
| | Poetry | {{blue ribbon}} Al Purdy, The Collected Poems of Al Purdy- Christopher Dewdney, The Immaculate Perception
- John Newlove, The Night the Dog Smiled
| | Drama | {{blue ribbon}} Sharon Pollock, Doc- Frank Moher, Odd Jobs
- Allan Stratton, Papers
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French| Category | Winner | Nominated | | Fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Yvon Rivard, Les silences du corbeau- Pierre Nepveu, L'hiver de Mira Christophe
- Sylvain Trudel, Le souffle de l'Harmattan
| | Non-fiction | {{blue ribbon}} Régine Robin, Le réalisme socialiste: une esthétique impossible- Marcel Fournier, L'entrée dans la modernité: science, culture et société au Québec
- René Major, De l'élection: Freud face aux idéologies américaine, allemande et soviétique
| | Poetry | {{blue ribbon}} Cécile Cloutier, L'écouté- François Charron, La chambre des miracles
- Normand de Bellefeuille, Catégoriques, un deux et trois
- Louise Dupré, Chambres
| | Drama | {{blue ribbon}} Anne Legault, La visite des sauvages- Normand Chaurette, Fragments d'une lettre d'adieu lus par des géologues
- Yves Desgagnés and Louise Roy, Les nouilles
- Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Le Titanic
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References{{GovernorGeneralsAwards}} 3 : Governor General's Awards|1986 in Canada|1986 literary awards |