Awards for Theatre
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
1989 Chalmers Award for Best New Play • 1990 Governor General’s Award for Drama • 1991 Canadian Authors Association Award for Drama.
Anything That Moves
2000 Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Musical
Awards for Fiction
Fall On Your Knees
1996 Giller Finalist • 1997 Commonwealth Writers Prize Best First Book • 1997 Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction • 1998 Canadian Booksellers Association, Libris Award: Fiction Book of the Year, and People’s Choice Award
The Way the Crow Flies
2003 Giller Finalist
Other
Fall On Your Knees – Oprah’s Book Club selection
The Way the Crow Flies – ABC’s Good Morning America Book Club selection
1990 Gemini award for Best Performance in a supporting actress in Where the Spirit Lives (1989)
1987 Nomination for a Genie Award for her role in I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing
Honorary Doctorate of Humanities, University of Windsor
Officer of the Order of Canada
