2001 Governor General's Awards

• The International Year of the Volunteer
• The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations

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..... Click the link for more information.  Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were be presented by Adrienne Clarkson

The Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson, née: Poy, (伍冰枝; pinyin: Wǔ Bīng zhī; Cantonese: Ng5 Benk1 zi1) (born February 10, 1939 in Hong Kong), is the current Governor General of Canada (since 1999). She is the first Chinese Canadian and second woman to hold this position, the first being Jeanne Sauvé.

A Hakka raised in Ontario, Clarkson's ancestry is from Taishan, Guangdong, China. Since her father was a British subject, he was a part of a prisoner-of-war exchange with the Japanese Imperial Forces. Her family subsequently came to Canada, using the "special circumstances" status that allowed Chinese into Canada during the Second World War in 1942. Clarkson is the daughter of William and Ethel Poy (伍英才).
..... Click the link for more information. , Governor General of Canada

The Governor General of Canada (Fr. Gouverneur général or Gouverneure générale) is the representative in Canada of Queen Elizabeth II, who is Queen of Canada and the country's head of state. (The Prime Minister of Canada is the head of government.) The full title of the office is The Governor General and Commander-in-Chief in and over Canada.

The Governor General is named by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister. It would cause a major constitutional crisis if the monarch did not accept such "advice." By tradition, the post alternates between an English-Canadian and a French-Canadian and generally serve a five year term (though, some Governors General had their terms extended by the monarch on the advice of the Prime Minister).
..... Click the link for more information. , at a ceremony at Rideau Hall Rideau Hall is the official residence of both the Queen of Canada and the Governor General of Canada.

It is located on 79 acres (0.32 km²) of land at One Sussex Drive in Ottawa. It was built in 1838 by a Scottish architect, Thomas MacKay, and was occupied by his family until 1855.

When Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the new capital of Canada in 1866, Rideau Hall became the residence of the first governor general, Lord Monck. The house has been expanded numerous times since then, including the addition of a tennis court in 1872, as well as an ice skating rink and a tobogganing slide.
..... Click the link for more information.  on November 14. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

• Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan

Other Finalists:

• Yann Martel

  Yann Martel (born June 25, 1963) is a Canadian author.

  A scholarship for his Canadian father to do his doctorate in Spain resulted in Yann Martel being born there in 1963. His father's occupation as a teacher and then a diplomat meant that Yann lived in various places including Alaska, Costa Rica, France, Mexico, and in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and British Columbia.

  As an adult, he continued to travel the globe, spending time in Iran, Turkey and India. After studying philosophy at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, at age 27 he embarked on a writing career. Living or visiting many cultures influenced his writing, providing the rich cultural background mix in
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• Tessa McWatt, Dragons Cry
• Jane Urquhart Jane Urquhart (born June 21, 1949) is a Canadian author.

  Born in Little Longlac, Ontario, she spent her later childhood and adolescence in Toronto. In addition to her novels, she has published three books of poetry ("I'm Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace," "False Shuffles," and "The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan."

  Jane Urquhart's books have been published in many countries, including the Netherlands, France, Germany, Britain, Scandinavia, Australia, and the United States, and have been translated into several languages.
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• Thomas Wharton, Salamander

Poetry

Winner:

• George Elliott Clarke George Elliott Clarke (born February 12 1960) is a Canadian poet and playwright. He has spenty much of his career writing about the black communities of Nova Scotia and served for a time in the African-American Studies department at Duke University. He is currently an English professor at the University of Toronto. In 2001 he won the Governor General's Award for poetry for his book Execution Poems.
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Other Finalists:

• Anne Carson Anne Carson (born Toronto, Ontario June 21, 1950) is a Canadian poet and professor of history at McGill University. She has background in the classics and classical languages, as well as anthropology. She blends ideas and themes from those fields, often modernizing Greek myths or referring to ancient philosophy in her poems and essays. She has written several books, all of which blend the forms of poetry, essay, prose, and non-fiction.
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• Phil Hall, Trouble Sleeping
• Robert Kroetsch Robert Kroetsch (born 1927) is a Canadian novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer. He currently lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

  Works:

  • But We Are Exiles - 1965
  • The Words of My Roaring - 1966
  • Alberta - 1968
  • The Stud Horse Man - 1969 (winner of the 1969 Governor General's Award for Fiction)
  • The Ledger - 1970
  • Gone Indian
  
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• Steve McCaffery Steven McCaffery (born January 24, 1947) is a Canadian poet and scholar who is a professor at York University. McCaffery was born in Sheffield, England and lived in the UK for most of his youth attending University of Hull. He moved to Canada to attend graduate school at York University in Toronto. In Toronto he met other poets of the era and in 1970, he began to collaborate with fellow poets Rafael Barreto-Rivera, Paul Dutton, and B. P. Nichol, forming the sound-poetry group The Four Horsemen. McCaeffery's poetry attemps to break language from the logic of syntax and structure to create a purely emotional response. He has created three-dimension structures of words and has released a number of sound and video works, often in colaboration with other poets.
  ..... Click the link for more information. , 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

Other Governor General's Awards Since its creation in 1937, the Governor General's Literary Awards has become one of Canada's most prestigious prizes, awarded in both French and English in the following seven categories: Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry, Drama, Children's Literature-Text, Children's Literature-Illustration, and Translation.

The awards were created by Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir, himself the noted author of The 39 Steps. The awards first only honoured two authors each year, and only those who wrote in English. In 1957 the awards were put under the administration of the Canada Council for the Arts and a cash prize began to be awarded to the winner.
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