| Margaret
Atwood Alistair
MacLeod Jane Urquhart
2000 Shortlist
2000
News
Margaret Atwood's work has been published
around the world and won many awards, including the Governor
General's Award, the Trillium Book Award, the Sunday Times
Award for Literary Excellence in the U.K., the National
Arts Club Medal of Honor for Literature in the U.S., and
the prestigious Le Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des
Lettres in France. Alias Grace, her ninth novel,
won The Giller Prize, and the Premio Mondello in Italy,
and was shortlisted for the 1996 Booker Prize, the Governor
General's Award for Fiction, the Orange Prize for Fiction,
the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Arthur
Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel. Margaret Atwood lives
in Toronto with novelist Graeme Gibson.
As Alice Munro did in the inaugural year
of the prize, Margaret Atwood has graciously removed The
Blind Assassin, her upcoming novel, from consideration
in order to sit on this year's jury.
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Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford,
Saskatchewan, and raised in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. In
his early years, to finance his education, he worked as
a logger, miner, and fisherman, and writes vividly and sympathetically
about such work. Dr. MacLeod is a professor of English at
the University of Windsor, Ontario. Working alongside W.O.
Mitchell, he was also a teacher to generations of writers
at the Banff Centre. His novel, No Great Mischief,
which has been on national bestseller lists since its publication,
recently won the 1999 - 2000 Trillium Book Award. Dr. MacLeod
lives with his wife, Anita, in Windsor, Ontario.
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Jane Urquhart's fiction has earned her many
awards and honours, including the Trillium Book Award, the
Marian Engel Award, Le prix de meilleur livre étranger (Best
Foreign Book Award) in France, and for her bestselling novel
Away, a place on the shortlist for the prestigious
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her fourth novel,
The Underpainter, won the 1997 Governor General's
Award. She has been named a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts
et des Lettres in France and has received several honourary
doctorates from Canadian universities. In 1997 she held
the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University
of Toronto. Jane Urquhart lives in southwestern Ontario.
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Margaret Atwood
Alistair MacLeod
Jane Urquhart
2000 Shortlist
2000 News
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