2001 Governor General's Awards

Template:Short description 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.<ref>"Governor General's award follows on top of the Giller: Novelist Richard Wright has good week". Prince George Citizen, November 15, 2001.</ref> Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.<ref>"Urquhart, Wright get GG award nominations". The Telegram, October 24, 2001.</ref>

English

Category	Winner	Nominated
Fiction	Template:Blue ribbon Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan	Yann Martel, Life of Pi Tessa McWatt, Dragons Cry Jane Urquhart, The Stone Carvers Thomas Wharton, Salamander
Non-fiction	Template:Blue ribbon 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	Template:Blue ribbon 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	Template:Blue ribbon 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	Template:Blue ribbon 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	Template:Blue ribbon 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	Template:Blue ribbon 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	Template:Blue ribbon Andrée A. Michaud, Template:Lang	Marie-Claire Blais, Template:Lang Rachel Leclerc, Template:Lang
Non-fiction	Template:Blue ribbon Renée Dupuis, Template:Lang	Jacques Allard, Template:Lang Michel Biron, Template:Lang Madeleine Gagnon, Template:Lang Jacques B. Gélinas, Template:Lang
Poetry	Template:Blue ribbon Paul Chanel Malenfant, Template:Lang	Tania Langlais, Template:Lang Hélène Monette, Template:Lang Stefan Psenak, Template:Lang Jean-Philippe Raîche, Template:Lang
Drama	Template:Blue ribbon Normand Chaurette, Template:Lang	François Archambault, Template:Lang Réjane Charpentier, Template:Lang Michel Ouellette, "Requiem", in Template:Lang
Children's literature	Template:Blue ribbon Christiane Duchesne, Template:Lang	Cécile Gagnon, Template:Lang Ann Lamontagne, Template:Lang Marthe Pelletier, Template:Lang Jean-Michel Schembré, Template:Lang
Children's illustration	Template:Blue ribbon Bruce Roberts, Template:Lang	Marjolaine Bonenfant, Template:Lang Pascale Constantin, Template:Lang Stéphane Poulin, Template:Lang Mylène Pratt, Template:Lang
English to French translation	Template:Blue ribbon Michel Saint-Germain, Template:Lang	Agnès Guitard, Template:Lang Maryse Warda, Template:Lang

References

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