2002 Governor General's Awards

The 2002 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were presented by Adrienne Clarkson, Governor General of Canada, at a ceremony at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, November 19. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.[1]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson
Non-fiction Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
  • 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: Field Notes on Poetry & Wilderness
Poetry Roy Miki, Surrender
Drama Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918)
Children's literature Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
Children's illustration Wallace Edwards, Alphabeasts
  • Brian Deines, Dragonfly Kites/pimihákanisa
  • Marie-Louise Gay, Stella, Fairy of the Forest
  • Rogé, When Pigs Fly
  • Janie Jaehyun Park, The Tiger and the Dried Persimmon
French to English translation Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Monique LaRue, La Gloire de Cassiodore
Non-fiction Judith Lavoie, Mark Twain et la parole noire
  • Claude Lévesque, Par-delà le masculin et le féminin
  • Lucie K. Morriset, La mémoire du paysage — Histoire de la forme urbain d'un centre-ville: Saint-Roch, Québec
  • Élisabeth Nardout-Lafarge, Réjean Ducharme: Une poétique du débris
  • Émile Ollivier, Repérages
Poetry Robert Dickson, Humains paysages en temps de paix relative
Drama Daniel Danis, Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche
Children's literature Hélène Vachon, L'oiseau de passage
Children's illustration Luc Melanson, Le grand voyage de Monsieur
  • Philippe Béha, La reine rouge
  • Jean-Marie Benoit, Le voyage à l'envers
  • Guy England, L'ami perdu
  • Mylène Pratt, Décroche-moi la lune
English to French translation Paule Noyart, Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat
  • Florence Bernard, F. R. Scott: une vie
  • Jean Paré, La révolution des droits
  • Carole Sadelain, La nature des économies

References
  1. "The Canada Council for the Arts announces the winners of the 2002 Governor General's Literary Awards". The Canada Council for the Arts. 2002-11-02. Archived from the original on 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
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