2000 Fiction Winner
Anil's Ghost
by Michael Ondaatje
Canada: McClelland & Stewart
UK: Bloomsbury
USA: Alfred A. Knopf
A spellbinding novel centering on the return of Anil Tissera, a forensic anthropologist,
to her native Sri Lanka to investigate the rash of political murders engulfing
the island.
Read Prize
Administrator Peter Coughlan’s interview with Michael Ondaatje.

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2000 Nonfiction Winner
Things That Must Not Be Forgotten: A Childhood
in Wartime China
by David Michael Kwan
Canada: MacFarlane, Walter & Ross
UK: Mainstream (Edinburgh)
USA:Soho Press (New York)
The exquisitely crafted, haunting memoir of the son of a wealthy Chinese railway
administrator and leader of the resistance against Japanese occupation in 1930's
China.
Read Prize
Manager Jeannine Cuevas’s interview with the late Michael David
Kwan.

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