2002 Governor General's Awards

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:

• Carolyn Abraham[?], Possessing Genius: The Bizarre Odyssey of Einstein's Brain
• 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 for 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

Other Governor General's Awards:

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