The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by
Adrienne Clarkson,
Governor General of Canada, and
Jean-Louis Roux
Jean-Louis Roux, (May 18, 1923 – November 28, 2013) was a Canadian politician, entertainer and playwright who was briefly the List of lieutenant governors of Quebec#Lieutenant Governors of Quebec, 1867–present, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Que ...
, Chairman of the
Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at
Rideau Hall.
English-language finalists
Fiction
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Michael Ondaatje, ''
Anil's Ghost
''Anil's Ghost'' is the critically acclaimed fourth novel by Michael Ondaatje. It was first published in 2000 by McClelland and Stewart.
''Anil's Ghost'' follows the life of Anil Tissera, a native Sri Lankan who left to study in Britain and then ...
''
*
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nin ...
, ''
The Blind Assassin
''The Blind Assassin'' is a novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Atwood. It was first published by McClelland and Stewart in 2000. The book is set in the fictional Ontario town of Port Ticonderoga and in Toronto. It is narrated from the present ...
''
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Austin Clarke, ''The Question''
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David Adams Richards
David Adams Richards (born 17 October 1950) is a Canadian writer and member of the Canadian Senate. , ''
Mercy Among the Children''
*
Eden Robinson
Eden Victoria Lena Robinson (born 19 January 1968) is an Indigenous Canadian author. She is a member of the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations.[Don McKay Don McKay may refer to:
* Don McKay (poet) (born 1942), Canadian poet, editor, and educator
* Don McKay (actor) (1925–2018), American actor, dancer and singer
* Don McKay (rugby union) (born 1937), New Zealand rugby union player
* Sir Don McKay (p ...]
, ''Another Gravity''
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George Bowering, ''His Life''
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A. F. Moritz
Albert Frank Moritz (born April 15, 1947) is a United States-born Canadian poet, teacher, and scholar.
Born in Niles, Ohio, Moritz was educated at Marquette University. Since 1975, he has made his home in Toronto, Ontario where he has worked vari ...
, ''Rest on the Flight into Egypt''
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John Pass, ''Water Stair''
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Patricia Young, ''Ruin and Beauty''
Drama
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Timothy Findley, ''
Elizabeth Rex
''Elizabeth Rex'' is a play by Timothy Findley. It premiered in a 2000 production by the Stratford Festival. The play won the 2000 Governor General's Award for English language drama.
Plot
The plot involves a meeting between Queen Elizabet ...
''
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George Boyd, ''Consecrated Ground''
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Linda Griffiths, ''Alien Creature''
*
Daniel MacIvor and
Daniel Brooks, ''Monster''
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Jason Sherman
Jason Sherman (born July 28, 1962 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian playwright and screenwriter.
After graduating from the creative writing program at York University in 1985, Sherman co-founded What Publishing with Kevin Connolly, which produc ...
, ''It's All True''
Non-fiction
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Nega Mezlekia, ''Notes from the Hyena's Belly''
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Robert Bringhurst, ''A Story as Sharp as a Knife''
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, ''River in a Dry Land''
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A. B. McKillop
Alexander Brian McKillop (born 1946), known as A. B. McKillop or Brian McKillop, is Distinguished Research Professor and former Chancellor's Professor and Chair of the history department (2005–2009) of Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Can ...
, ''The Spinster and the Prophet''
Children's literature (text)
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Deborah Ellis, ''Looking for X''
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Martha Brooks, ''Being with Henry''
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Sharon E. McKay
Sharon E. McKay (born 1954) is a Canadian author of novels and graphic novels for children and young adults, that often focus on children going through hardships throughout the world. She was born in 1954 in Montreal, Quebec, and earned a B.A. f ...
, ''Charlie Wilcox''
*
Sheldon Oberman
Sheldon Oberman (May 20, 1949 – March 26, 2004) was a Canadian children's writer who lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Oberman (known to friends as Obie) grew up in the city's North End. After graduating from St. Johns Hi ...
, ''The Shaman's Nephew''
*
Duncan Thornton
Duncan Thornton (born June 14, 1962) is a Canadian author, speaker, and futurist. He was born in Gods Lake Narrows, Manitoba, where his father served as minister in the United Church of Canada. The family moved to Winnipeg a few years later. ...
, ''Kalifax''
Children's literature (illustration)
*
Marie-Louise Gay, ''Yuck, A Love Story''
*
Nelly
Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur. He embarked on his music career with the hip hop group St. Lunatics in 1993 and signed to Universal ...
and
Ernst Hofer, ''The Snow Queen''
*
Marthe Jocelyn
Marthe Jocelyn (born 1956) is a Canadian writer of over forty children's books. In 2009, she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People, an honour bestowed by the Writers' Trust of Canada to a writer or illustrator whose bod ...
, ''Hannah's Collections''
*
Regolo Ricci
Regolo Ricci (born 1955) is a Canadian artist working mainly in oils and watercolors. He was born in Italy and came to Canada as a young child. He is best known for his work as a children's book illustrator, and he was nominated for the Canada Coun ...
, ''The Market Wedding''
*
Cybèle Young, ''Pa's Harvest''
French-to-English translation
*
Robert Majzels
Robert Majzels (born May 12, 1950) is a Canadian novelist, poet, playwright and translator.
Life
Majzels was born in Montreal, Quebec. In 1986, he graduated with a master's degree in English Literature from Concordia University in Montreal, w ...
, ''Just Fine'' (
France Daigle, ''Pas pire'')
*
Sheila Fischman, ''Terra Firma'' (
Christiane Frenette
Christiane Frenette (born November 18, 1954) is a Quebec educator and writer.
The daughter of Pierrette Duchesne and Claude Frenette, she was born in Quebec City and received a master's degree in Quebec literature from the Université Laval. Fren ...
, ''La Terre ferme'')
*
Linda Gaboriau
Linda Gaboriau ( Johnson)"Decoding the message a translator's challenge". ''The Globe and Mail'', January 26, 1991. is a Canadian dramaturg and literary translator who has translated some 125 plays and novels by Quebec writers, including many of ...
, ''Down Dangerous Passes Road'' (
Michel Marc Bouchard
Michel Marc Bouchard, (born February 2, 1958) is a Canadian playwright. He has received the Prix Journal de Montreal, Prix du Cercle des critiques de l'Outaouais, the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, the Floyd S. Chalmers Canadian ...
, ''Le chemin des Passes-dangereuses'')
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Bobby Theodore, ''15 Seconds'' (
François Archambault
François () is a French masculine given name and surname, equivalent to the English name Francis.
People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, Kin ...
, ''15 secondes'')
French-language finalists
Fiction
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Jean-Marc Dalpé, ''Un vent se lève qui éparpille''
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Christiane Duchesne, ''L'Homme des silences''
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Roger Magini, ''Styx''
*
Pierre Samson
Pierre Samson (born 1958) is a Canadian writer. He was born in Montreal, Quebec and settled in Toronto, Ontario in 1995 where he wrote his first novel ''Messie de Belém''. He returned to Montreal and published a second novel entitled ''Un garço ...
, ''Il était une fois une ville''
*
Alison Lee Strayer, ''Jardin et prairie''
Poetry
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Normand de Bellefeuille, ''La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien''
*
Martine Audet, ''Orbites''
*
Joël Des Rosiers, ''Vétiver''
*
Madeleine Gagnon
Madeleine Gagnon (born July 27, 1938) is a Quebec educator, literary critic and writer.
Biography
She was born in Amqui in the valley of the Matapedia River and was educated at the Collège Notre-Dame d'Acadie in Moncton, at the Université de M ...
, ''Rêve de pierre''
*
Claude Paré, ''Exécuté en chambre''
Drama
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Wajdi Mouawad
Wajdi Mouawad, OC, (born 1968) is a Lebanese-Canadian writer, actor, and director. He is known in Canadian and French theatre for politically engaged works such as the acclaimed play ''Incendies'' (2003). His works often revolve around family t ...
, ''Littoral''
*
Geneviève Billette, ''Crime contre l'humanité''
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Serge Boucher, ''24 Poses''
*
Jasmine Dubé
Jasmine Dubé (born April 11, 1957) is a Canadian actor, writer and director living in Quebec.
She was born in Amqui, studied at the Cégep de Matane and graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1978. She has worked with a number o ...
, ''L'Arche de Noémie''
*
Lise Vaillancourt
Lise Vaillancourt (born July 5, 1954) is a Quebec writer.
She was born in Montreal and studied philosophy at the Cégep Édouard-Montpetit and theatre and film at the Université du Québec à Montréal and the Université Laval. From 1975 to 1979 ...
, ''Le petit dragon'' and ''La balade de Fannie et Carcassonne''
Non-fiction
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Gérard Bouchard
Gérard Bouchard (born 1943) is a Canadian historian and sociologist affiliated with the Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Born on 26 December 1943 in Jonquière, Quebec, he obtained his master's degree in sociology from Université Laval i ...
, ''Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde''
*
Brian T. Fitch
Brian T. Fitch is a british non-fiction author, and professor of French in Toronto at Trinity College Trinity College may refer to:
Australia
* Trinity Anglican College, an Anglican coeducational primary and secondary school in , New South Wales ...
, ''À l'ombre de la littérature''
*
Olga Hazan, ''Le mythe du progrès artistique''
*
Yves Lavertu
Yves may refer to:
* Yves, Charente-Maritime, a commune of the Charente-Maritime department in France
* Yves (given name), including a list of people with the name
* ''Yves'' (single album), a single album by Loona
* ''Yves'' (film), a 2019 Fre ...
, ''Jean-Charles Harvey''
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Robert Major, ''Convoyages''
Children's literature (text)
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Charlotte Gingras, ''Un été de Jade''
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Guy Dessureault, ''L'homme au chat''
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François Gravel
François Gravel (born October 4, 1951) is a Canadian writer from Quebec. , ''L'été de la moustache''
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Gilles Tibo, ''La Planète du petit géant''
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Hélène Vachon, ''Le délire de Somerset''
Children's literature (illustration)
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Anne Villeneuve, ''L'Écharpe rouge''
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Marie-Louise Gay, ''Sur mon île''
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Pascale Constantin, ''Gloups!, Bébé-vampire''
*
Geneviève Côté
Geneviève Côté (born 1964) is a Canadian illustrator living in Montreal, mainly known for her work on children's books.
She was born in Montreal, Quebec, and received a bachelor's degree in graphic design from Concordia University in 1987. CÃ ...
, ''La grande aventure d'un petit mouton noir''
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Gérard DuBois
Gérard DuBois (born 1968) is a French illustrator. In 2017, he received the Hamilton King Award. DuBois works in a variety of styles, which have been described as a consistent and remarkable blend of beauty, passion, and intelligence.
Early ...
, ''Riquet à la Houppe''
English-to-French translation
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Lori Saint-Martin
Lori Saint-Martin ( – 22 October 2022) was a Canadian author and literary translator. Her first novel, ''Les Portes closes'', came out in 2013. Working with her husband Paul Gagné, she translated over seventy English language books into Frenc ...
and
Paul Gagné
Paul L. Gagné (born February 6, 1962) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who played 390 games in the National Hockey League. He played for the Colorado Rockies, New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders.
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, ''Un parfum de cèdre''
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Jude Des Chênes, ''L'honneur du guerrier''
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Dominique Issenhuth, ''Amants''
External links
* The Canada Council
CUMULATIVE LIST OF FINALISTS FOR THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS
References
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