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
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Winner
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Nominated
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| Fiction
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Gloria Sawai, A Song for Nettie Johnson
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| Non-fiction
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Andrew Nikiforuk, Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig's War Against Big Oil
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- 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
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| Poetry
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Roy Miki, Surrender
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| Drama
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Kevin Kerr, Unity (1918)
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| Children's literature
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Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
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| Children's illustration
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Wallace Edwards, Alphabeasts
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- 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
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| French to English translation
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Nigel Spencer, Thunder and Light
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French
| Category
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Winner
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Nominated
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| Fiction
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Monique LaRue, La Gloire de Cassiodore
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| Non-fiction
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Judith Lavoie, Mark Twain et la parole noire
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- 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
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| Poetry
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Robert Dickson, Humains paysages en temps de paix relative
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| Drama
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Daniel Danis, Le Langue-à-Langue des chiens de roche
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| Children's literature
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Hélène Vachon, L'oiseau de passage
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| Children's illustration
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Luc Melanson, Le grand voyage de Monsieur
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- Philippe Béha, La reine rouge
- Jean-Marie Benoit, Le voyage à l'envers
- Guy England, L'ami perdu
- Mylène Pratt, Décroche-moi la lune
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| English to French translation
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Paule Noyart, Histoire universelle de la chasteté et du célibat
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- Florence Bernard, F. R. Scott: une vie
- Jean Paré, La révolution des droits
- Carole Sadelain, La nature des économies
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