Finalist, Giller Prize (for A Student of Weather) 2000 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award (for A Student of Weather) 2000 TORGI Award 2002 Marian Engel Award (Writers' Trust of Canada) 2003 Finalist, Governor-General's Award for Fiction (for A Student of Weather) 2003 Ottawa Book Award (for Garbo Laughs) 2007 Giller Prize (for Late Nights on Air) 2009 Nominated, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2012 Diamond Jubilee Medal 2015 Finalist, Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2015 Finalist, Ottawa Book Award 2018 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction (for All Things Consoled) References 1951 births Living people Canadian non-fiction writers Canadian women non-fiction writers Canadian women novelists Canadian women short story writers People from Owen Sound Writers from Ontario 20th-century Canadian novelists 20th-century Canadian short story writers 20th-century Canadian women writers 21st-century Canadian novelists 21st-century Canadian short story writers 21st-century Canadian women writers