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2000 Governor General's Awards

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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