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2002 Governor General's Awards

SHOPPER'S DELIGHT

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:

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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: Fieldnotes on Poetry and 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''

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