2002 Governor General's Awards
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The 2002 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Clarkson
Adrienne Louise Clarkson is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 26th since Canadian Confederation....

, Governor General of Canada
Governor General of Canada
The Governor General of Canada is the federal viceregal representative of the Canadian monarch, Queen Elizabeth II...

, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall
Rideau Hall
Rideau Hall is, since 1867, the official residence in Ottawa of both the Canadian monarch and the Governor General of Canada. It stands in Canada's capital on a 0.36 km2 estate at 1 Sussex Drive, with the main building consisting of 170 rooms across 9,500 m2 , and 24 outbuildings around the...

 on Tuesday, November 19. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.

Fiction

  • Gloria Sawai
    Gloria Sawai
    Gloria Sawai is an American-born fiction author who was based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. She died on 20 July 2011....

    , A Song for Nettie Johnson
  • David Bergen
    David Bergen
    David Bergen is a Canadian novelist from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He has published six novels and one collection of short stories since 1993...

    , The Case of Lena S.
  • Ann Ireland
    Ann Ireland
    Ann Ireland is a Canadian fiction author.Born in Toronto, Ontario, she studied at the University of British Columbia, from which she earned a BFA in creative writing in 1976. She is a past president of PEN Canada....

    , Exile
  • Wayne Johnston
    Wayne Johnston (author)
    Wayne Johnston is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting.-Biography:...

    , The Navigator of New York
  • Carol Shields
    Carol Shields
    Carol Ann Shields, CC, OM, FRSC, MA was an American-born Canadian author. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.-Biography:Shields was born in Oak Park, Illinois...

    , Unless

Poetry

  • Roy Miki
    Roy Miki
    Roy Akira Miki, CM, FRSC is a Canadian poet and scholar.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba to second generation Japanese-Canadian parents, he attended the University of Manitoba, the University of British Columbia, and Simon Fraser University, where he is currently a professor emeritus. He lives in...

    , Surrender
  • Tammy Armstrong, Bogman's Music
  • Colin Browne, Ground Water
  • Kathy Mac, Nail Builders Plan for Strength and Growth
  • Erin Mouré
    Erin Mouré
    Erin Mouré is a Canadian poet and translator of poetry from languages which include, French, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish to English. Her mother Mary Irene was born 1924 in Galicia, Poland and moved to Canada in 1929. Erin’s father is William Moure born in Ottawa Canada in 1925...

    , O Cidadán

Drama

  • Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918)
  • Claudia Dey
    Claudia Dey
    Claudia Dey is a Canadian writer. She was born in Toronto, Ontario. She studied English Literature at McGill University and playwriting at the National Theatre School of Canada.Dey's first novel, Stunt, was published by Coach House Books...

    , The Gwendolyn Poems
  • Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale
    Lorena Gale was a Canadian actress, director, and writer. She was active onstage and in films and television since the 1980s...

    , Je me souviens
  • Michael Lewis MacLennan, The Shooting Stage

Non-fiction

  • Andrew Nikiforuk
    Andrew Nikiforuk
    Andrew Nikiforuk is a Canadian journalist who has won multiple National Magazine Awards. His work has appeared in Saturday Night, Maclean’s, Canadian Business, Report on Business, Chatelaine, Alberta Views, Equinox, and Canadian Family and in both national newspapers...

    , Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
  • Carolyn Abraham, Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
    Albert Einstein's brain
    Albert Einstein's brain has often been a subject of research and speculation. Einstein's brain was removed within seven hours of his death. The brain has attracted attention because of Einstein's reputation for being one of the foremost geniuses of the 20th century, and apparent regularities or...

  • Jill Frayne, Starting Out in the Afternoon: A Mid-Life Journey into Wild Land
  • Stephen Henighan
    Stephen Henighan
    Stephen Henighan is a Canadian novelist, short story writer, journalist and academic.Arriving in Canada at the age of five, Henighan grew up in rural eastern Ontario. He studied political science at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, where he won the Potter Short Story Prize in April 1981...

    , When Words Deny the World: The Reshaping of Canadian Writing
  • Don McKay
    Don McKay
    Don McKay, CM is an award-winning Canadian poet, editor, and educator.Born in Owen Sound, Ontario and raised in Cornwall, McKay was educated at the University of Western Ontario and the University of Wales, where he earned his PhD in 1971...

    , Vis à Vis: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness

Children's literature (text)

  • Martha Brooks
    Martha Brooks
    Martha Brooks is an award-winning, Canadian writer of plays, novels, and short fiction. Her young adult novel True Confessions of a Heartless Girl won the Governor General's Award for English language children's literature in 2002....

    , True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
  • Alan Cumyn
    Alan Cumyn
    Alan Cumyn is a Canadian novelist who lives in Ottawa, Ontario.Alan Cumyn studied at Royal Roads Military College in 1983, and Queen's University before earning an M.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor...

    , The Secret Life of Owen Skye
  • Deborah Ellis
    Deborah Ellis
    Deborah Ellis is a Canadian author. Born in Cochrane, Ontario, she had to move several times in her childhood due to her parents' work. Ellis decided to start writing when she was 11-12 years old. When she grew up, her work and writing was mainly done by traveling and talking to others that have...

    , Parvana's Journey
  • John Lekich, The Losers' Club
  • Karen Levine, Hana's Suitcase

Children's literature (illustration)

  • Wallace Edwards
    Wallace Edwards
    Wallace Edwards is a Canadian children's illustrator who won the 2002 Governor General's Award for his book Alphabeasts. He is a graduate of the Ontario College of Art....

    , Alphabeasts
  • Brian Deines, Dragonfly Kites/pimihákanisa
  • Marie-Louise Gay
    Marie-Louise Gay
    Marie-Louise Gay is a Canadian children’s author and illustrator.- Background :Born in Quebec City, as a child she lived in Montreal and Vancouver. Gay has received numerous awards for her written and illustrated works in both French and English, including the 2005 Vicky Metcalf Award, multiple...

    , Stella, Fairy of the Forest
  • Rogé (Roger Girard), When Pigs Fly
  • Janie Jaehyun Park, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon

French-to-English translation

  • Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light
  • Sheila Fischman
    Sheila Fischman
    Sheila Leah Fischman, CM is a Canadian translator who specializes in the translation of works of contemporary Quebec literature....

    , Twelve Opening Acts
  • Linda Gaboriau
    Linda Gaboriau
    Linda Gaboriau is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 100 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of the Quebec plays best known to English-speaking Canadian audiences....

    , Impromptu on Nun's Island
  • Liedewy Hawke, The Milky Way
  • Lazer Lederhendler
    Lazer Lederhendler
    Lazer Lederhendler is a Canadian literary translator and academic. A four-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French to English translation, he won the award in 2008 for his translation of Nicolas Dickner's novel Nikolski...

    , Larry Volt

French-language winners

  • Fiction Monique LaRue, La Gloire de Cassiodore

  • Poetry Robert Dickson
    Robert Dickson (writer)
    Robert Dickson was a Canadian poet, translator and academic.Dickson formerly worked as a professor for le Département d'études françaises et de traduction at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Ontario...

    , 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

  • English-to-French translation Paule Pierre-Noyart Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat
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