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.

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:

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:

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:

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