2000 Governor General's Awards

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The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost

Other Finalists:

• Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
• Austin Clarke, The Question
• David Adams Richards, Mercy Among the Children
• Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

Poetry

Winner:

• Don McKay, Another Gravity

Other Finalists:

• George Bowering, His Life
• A.F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
• John Pass, Water Stair
• Patricia Young, Ruin and Beauty

Drama

Winner:

• Timothy Findley, Elizabeth Rex

Other Finalists:

• George Boyd, Consecrated Ground
• Linda Griffiths, Alien Creature
• Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks, Monster
• Jason Sherman, It's All True

Nonfiction

Winner:

• Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly

Other Finalists:

• Robert Bringhurst, A Story as Sharp as a Knife
• Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land
• A. B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Deborah Ellis, Looking for X

Other Finalists:

• Martha Brooks, Being with Henry
• Sharon E. McKay, Charlie Wilcox
• Sheldon Oberman, The Shaman's Nephew
• Duncan Thornton, Kalifax

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, A Love Story

Other Finalists:

• Nelly and Ernst Hofer, The Snow Queen
• Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah's Collections
• Regolo Ricci, The Market Wedding
• Cybèle Young, Pa's Harvest

Translation (French to English)

Winner:

• Robert Majzels, Just Fine

Other Finalists:

• Sheila Fischman, Terra Firma
• Linda Gaboriau, Down Dangerous Passes Road
• Bobby Theodore, 15 Seconds

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Jean-Marc Dalpé, Un vent se lève qui éparpille

Other Finalists:

• Christiane Duchesne, L'Homme des silences
• Roger Magini, Styx
• Pierre Samson, Il était une fois une ville
• Alison Lee Strayer, Jardin et prairie

Poetry

Winner:

• Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien

Other Finalists:

• Martine Audet, Orbites
• Joël Des Rosiers, Vétiver
• Madeleine Gagnon, Rêve de pierre
• Claude Paré, Exécuté en chambre

Drama

Winner:

• Wajdi Mouawad, Littoral

Other Finalists:

• Geneviève Billette, Crime contre l'humanité
• Serge Boucher, 24 Poses
• Jasmine Dubé, L'Arche de Noémie
• Lise Vaillancourt, Le petit dragon, et La balade de Fannie et Carcassonne

Nonfiction

Winner:

• Gérard Bouchard, Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde

Other Finalists:

• Brian T. Fitch, À l'ombre de la littérature
• Olga Hazan, Le mythe du progrès artistique
• Yves Lavertu, Jean-Charles Harvey
• Robert Major, Convoyages

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

• Charlotte Gingras, Un été de Jade

Other Finalists:

• Guy Dessureault, L'homme au chat
• François Gravel, L'été de la moustache
• Gilles Tibo, La Planète du petit géant
• Hélène Vachon, Le délire de Somerset

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

• Anne Villeneuve, L'Écharpe rouge

Other Finalists:

• Marie-Louise Gay, Sur mon île
• Pascale Constantin, Gloups!, Bébé-vampire
• Geneviève Côté, La grande aventure d'un petit mouton noir
• Gérard Dubois, Riquet à la Houppe

Translation (English to French)

Winner:

• Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Un parfum de cèdre

Other Finalists:

• Jude Des Chênes, L'honneur du guerrier
• Dominique Issenhuth, Amants

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