2002 Governor General's Awards

The 2002 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were be presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, November 19. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.

English-language finalists

Fiction

Winner:
*Gloria Sawai, "A Song for Nettie Johnson"

Other Finalists:
*David Bergen, "The Case of Lena S."
*Ann Ireland, "Exile"
*Wayne Johnston, "The Navigator of New York"
*Carol Shields, "Unless"

Poetry

Winner:
*Roy Miki, "Surrender"

Other Finalists:
*Tammy Armstrong, "Bogman's Music"
*Colin Browne, "Ground Water"
*Kathy Mac, "Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth"
*Erin Mouré, "O Cidadán"

Drama

Winner:
*Kevin Kerr, "Unity (1918)"

Other Finalists:
*Claudia Dey, "The Gwendolyn Poems"
*Lorena Gale, "Je me souviens"
*Michael Lewis MacLennan, "The Shooting Stage"

Nonfiction

Winner:
*Andrew Nikiforuk, "Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil"

Other Finalists:
*Carolyn Abraham, "Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain"
*Jill Frayne, "Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land"
*Stephen Henighan, "When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing"
*Don McKay, "Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness"

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Martha Brooks, "True Confessions of a Heartless Girl"

Other Finalists:
*Alan Cumyn, "The Secret Life of Owen Skye"
*Deborah Ellis, "Parvana's Journey"
*John Lekich, "The Losers' Club"
*Karen Levine, "Hana's Suitcase"

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
*Wallace Edwards, "Alphabeasts"

Other Finalists:
*Brian Deines, "Dragonfly Kites/pimihákanisa"
*Marie-Louise Gay, "Stella, Fairy of the Forest"
*Rogé (Roger Girard), "When Pigs Fly"
*Janie Jaehyun Park, "The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon"

Translation (French to English)

Winner:
*Nigel Spencer, "Thunder and Light"

Other Finalists:
*Sheila Fischman, "Twelve Opening Acts"
*Linda Gaboriau, "Impromptu on Nun's Island"
*Liedewy Hawke, "The Milky Way"
*Lazer Lederhendler, "Larry Volt"

French Winners

*Fiction Monique LaRue, "La Gloire de Cassiodore"

*Poetry Robert Dickson, "Humains paysages en temps de paix relative"

*Drama Daniel Danis, "Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche"

*Non-Fiction Judith Lavoie, "Mark Twain et la parole noire"

*Children's Literature Hélène Vachon, "L'oiseau de passage"

*Children's Literature - Illustration Luc Melanson, "Le grand voyage de Monsieur"

*Translation - English to French Paule Pierre-Noyart "Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat"