2000 Governor General's Awards

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"