The 2000 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, and Jean-Louis Roux, Chairman of the Canada Council for the Arts, on November 14 at Rideau Hall.

Table of contents
1 English Language
2 French Language
3 Other Governor General's Awards:

English Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:

Poetry

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • George Bowering, His Life
  • A.F. Moritz, Rest on the Flight into Egypt
  • John Pass, Water Stair
  • Patricia Young, Ruin and Beauty

Drama

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • George Boyd, Consecrated Ground
  • Linda Griffiths, Alien Creature
  • Daniel MacIvor and Daniel Brooks, Monster
  • Jason Sherman, It's All True

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • Nega Mezlekia, Notes from the Hyena's Belly

Other Finalists:
  • Robert Bringhurst, A Story as Sharp as a Knife
  • Trevor Herriot, River in a Dry Land
  • A. B. McKillop, The Spinster and the Prophet

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Deborah Ellis, Looking for X

Other Finalists:

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Marie-Louise Gay, Yuck, A Love Story

Other Finalists:
  • Nelly and Ernst Hofer, The Snow Queen
  • Marthe Jocelyn, Hannah's Collections
  • Regolo Ricci, The Market Wedding
  • Cybèle Young, Pa's Harvest

Translation (French to English)

Winner:

  • Robert Majzels, Just Fine

Other Finalists:
  • Sheila Fischman, Terra Firma
  • Linda Gaboriau, Down Dangerous Passes Road
  • Bobby Theodore, 15 Seconds

French Language

Fiction

Winner:

Other Finalists:
  • Christiane Duchesne, L'Homme des silences
  • Roger Magini, Styx
  • Pierre Samson, Il était une fois une ville
  • Alison Lee Strayer, Jardin et prairie

Poetry

Winner:

  • Normand de Bellefeuille, La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien

Other Finalists:
  • Martine Audet, Orbites
  • Joël Des Rosiers, Vétiver
  • Madeleine Gagnon, Rêve de pierre
  • Claude Paré, Exécuté en chambre

Drama

Winner:

  • Wajdi Mouawad, Littoral

Other Finalists:
  • Geneviève Billette, Crime contre l'humanité
  • Serge Boucher, 24 Poses
  • Jasmine Dubé, L'Arche de Noémie
  • Lise Vaillancourt, Le petit dragon, et La balade de Fannie et Carcassonne

Nonfiction

Winner:

  • Gérard Bouchard, Genèse des nations et cultures du Nouveau Monde

Other Finalists:
  • Brian T. Fitch, À l'ombre de la littérature
  • Olga Hazan, Le mythe du progrès artistique
  • Yves Lavertu, Jean-Charles Harvey
  • Robert Major, Convoyages

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:

  • Charlotte Gingras, Un été de Jade

Other Finalists:
  • Guy Dessureault, L'homme au chat
  • François Gravel, L'été de la moustache
  • Gilles Tibo, La Planète du petit géant
  • Hélène Vachon, Le délire de Somerset

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:

  • Anne Villeneuve, L'Écharpe rouge

Other Finalists:
  • Marie-Louise Gay, Sur mon île
  • Pascale Constantin, Gloups!, Bébé-vampire
  • Geneviève Côté, La grande aventure d'un petit mouton noir
  • Gérard Dubois, Riquet à la Houppe

Translation (English to French)

Winner:

  • Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, Un parfum de cèdre

Other Finalists:
  • Jude Des Chênes, L'honneur du guerrier
  • Dominique Issenhuth, Amants

Other Governor General's Awards:

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