# 2001 Governor General's Awards

The 2001 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on November 14. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.

## English

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan | Yann Martel, Life of Pi Tessa McWatt, Dragons Cry Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers Thomas Wharton, Salamander |
| Non-fiction | Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap | Susan Crean, The Laughing One: A Journey to Emily Carr Ross A. Laird, Grain of Truth: The Ancient Lessons of Craft Alberto Manguel, Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate Jack Todd, The Taste of Metal: A Deserter's Story |
| Poetry | George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems | Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours Phil Hall, Trouble Sleeping Robert Kroetsch, The Hornbooks of Rita K. Steve McCaffery, Seven Pages Missing |
| Drama | Kent Stetson, The Harps of God | Mark Brownell, Monsieur d'Eon Clem Martini, A Three Martini Lunch Michael Redhill, Building Jerusalem Jason Sherman, An Acre of Time: The Play |
| Children's literature | Arthur Slade, Dust | Brian Doyle, Mary Ann Alice Beth Goobie, Before Wings Julie Johnston, In Spite of Killer Bees Teresa Toten, The Game |
| Children's illustration | Mireille Levert, An Island in the Soup | Harvey Chan, Wild Bog Tea Murray Kimber, The Wolf of Gubbio Kim LaFave, We'll All Go Sailing Cindy Revell, Mallory and the Power Boy |
| French to English translation | Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring (Martine Desjardins, Le Cercle de Clara) | Sheila Fischman, The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches (Gaétan Soucy, La petite fille qui aimait trop les allumettes) Gail Scott, The Sailor's Disquiet (Michael Delisle, Le Désarroi du matelot) |

## French

| Category | Winner | Nominated |
| Fiction | Andrée A. Michaud, Le ravissement | Marie-Claire Blais, Dans la foudre et la lumière Rachel Leclerc, Ruelle Océan |
| Non-fiction | Renée Dupuis, Quel Canada pour les Autochtones? La fin de l'exclusion | Jacques Allard, Le roman du Québec: Histoire, perspectives, lectures Michel Biron, L'absence du maître : Saint-Denys Garneau, Ferron, Ducharme Madeleine Gagnon, Les Femmes et la guerre Jacques B. Gélinas, La globalisation du monde: laisser faire ou faire? |
| Poetry | Paul Chanel Malenfant, Des ombres portées | Tania Langlais, Douze bêtes aux chemises de l'homme Hélène Monette, Un jardin dans la nuit Stefan Psenak, La beauté Jean-Philippe Raîche, Une lettre au bout du monde |
| Drama | Normand Chaurette, Le Petit Köchel | François Archambault, Code 99 Réjane Charpentier, Un Autre Monde Michel Ouellette, "Requiem", in Requiem suivi de Fausse route |
| Children's literature | Christiane Duchesne, Jomusch et le troll des cuisines | Cécile Gagnon, Le chien de Pavel Ann Lamontagne, Les mémoires interdites Marthe Pelletier, Chante pour moi, Charlotte Jean-Michel Schembré, Le noir passage |
| Children's illustration | Bruce Roberts, Fidèles éléphants | Marjolaine Bonenfant, L'abécédaire des animots Pascale Constantin, Alexis, chevalier des nuits Stéphane Poulin, Vieux Thomas et la petite fée Mylène Pratt, Le dimanche de Madame B |
| English to French translation | Michel Saint-Germain, No Logo: La Tyrannie des marques | Agnès Guitard, Les hauturiers: ils précédèrent les Vikings en Amérique Maryse Warda, Motel de passage |