The 2001 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were be 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 Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan

Other Finalists:
*Yann Martel, Life of Pi
*Tessa McWatt, Dragons Cry
*Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers
*Thomas Wharton, Salamander

Poetry

Winner:
*George Elliott Clarke, Execution Poems

Other Finalists:
*Anne Carson, Men in the Off Hours
*Phil Hall, Trouble Sleeping
*Robert Kroetsch, The Hornbooks of Rita K.
*Steve McCaffery, Seven Pages Missing

Drama

Winner:
*Kent Stetson, The Harps of God

Other Finalists:
*Mark Brownell, Monsieur d'Eon
*Clem Martini, A Three Martini Lunch
*Michael Redhill, Building Jerusalem
*Jason Sherman, An Acre of Time: The Play

Nonfiction

Winner:
*Thomas Homer-Dixon, The Ingenuity Gap

Other Finalists:
*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

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Arthur Slade, Dust

Other Finalists:
*Brian Doyle, Mary Ann Alice
*Beth Goobie, Before Wings
*Julie Johnston, In Spite of Killer Bees
*Teresa Toten, The Game

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
*Mireille Levert, Island in the Soup

Other Finalists:
*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

Translation (French to English)

Winner:
*Fred A. Reed and David Homel, Fairy Ring

Other Finalists:
*Sheila Fischman, Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
*Gail Scott, The Sailor's Disquiet

French Language

Fiction

Winner:
*Andrée A. Michaud, Le ravissement

Other Finalists:
*Marie-Claire Blais, Dans la foudre et la lumière
*Rachel Leclerc, Ruelle Océan

Poetry

Winner:
*Paul Chanel Malenfant, Des ombres portées

Other Finalists:
*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

Winner:
*Normand Chaurette, Le Petit Köchel

Other Finalists:
*François Archambault, Code 99
*Réjane Charpentier, Un Autre Monde
*Michel Ouellette, "Requiem", in Requiem suivi de Fausse route

Nonfiction

Winner:
*Renée Dupuis, Quel Canada pour les Autochtones? La fin de l'exclusion

Other Finalists:
*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?

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
*Christiane Duchesne, Jomusch et le troll des cuisines

Other Finalists:
*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 Literature - Illustration

Winner:
*Bruce Roberts, Fidèles éléphants

Other Finalists:
*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

Translation (English to French)

Winner:
*Michel Saint-Germain, No Logo: La Tyrannie des marques

Other Finalists:
*Agnès Guitard, Les hauturiers: ils précédèrent les Vikings en Amérique
*Maryse Warda, Motel de passage

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