2003 Governor General's Awards

Information about 2003 Governor General's Awards

The 2003 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on November 12. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.

English-language finalists

Fiction

Winner: Other Finalists:

Poetry

Winner: Other Finalists:

Drama

Winner: Other Finalists:

Nonfiction

Winner: Other Finalists:
  • Andrew Clark, A Keen Soldier: The Execution of Second World War Private Harold Pringle
  • Andrew Cohen, While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
  • Maggie de Vries, Vancouver, for Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
  • Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
  • Glen Huser, Stitches
Other Finalists:

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner: Other Finalists:
  • Nicolas Debon, Four Pictures by Emily Carr
  • Rob Gonsalves, Imagine a Night
  • Barbara Reid, The Subway Mouse
  • Ludmila Zeman, Sindbad’s Secret: From the Tales of the Thousand and One Nights

Translation (French to English)

Winner:
  • Jane Brierley - Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life
Other Finalists:
  • Patricia Claxton, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
  • Jo-Anne Elder, Tales from Dog Island: St. Pierre et Miquelon
  • David Homel and Fred A. Reed, The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle
  • Susan Ouriou, Necessary Betrayals

French language finalists

Fiction

Winner: Other Finalists:
  • Jean-François Chassay, L’Angle mort
  • Marie Gagnier, Console-moi
  • Gaétan Soucy, Music-Hall!
  • Larry Tremblay, Le Mangeur de bicyclette

Poetry

Winner: Other Finalists:
  • Nicole Brossard, Cahier de roses & de civilisation
  • Carle Coppens, Le grand livre des entorses
  • Benoit Jutras, Nous serons sans voix
  • Louis-Jean Thibault, Géographie des lointains

Drama:

Winner:
  • Jean-Rock Gaudreault - Deux pas vers les étoiles
Other Finalists:
  • François Archambault, La société des loisirs
  • François Létourneau, Cheech
  • Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies
  • Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Écriture pour le théâtre, tome III

Non-Fiction

Winner:
  • Thierry Hentsch- Raconter et mourir : aux sources narratives de l’imaginaire occidental
Other Finalists:
  • Michel Morin, Vertige! et autres essais a-politiques
  • Louise Prescott, Le complexe d’Ulysse : signifiance et micropolitique dans la pratique de l’art
  • François Ricard, Le dernier après-midi d’Agnès: essai sur l’oeuvre de Milan Kundera
  • Régine Robin, La mémoire saturée

Children's Literature - Text

Winner:
  • Danielle Simard, J’ai vendu ma soeur
Other Finalists:
  • Mélissa Anctil, Gigi
  • Roger Des Roches, Marie Quatdoigts
  • Laurent Grimon, Le chevalier des Arbres
  • Paul Chanel Malenfant, Si tu allais quelque part

Children's Literature - Illustration

Winner:
  • Virginie Egger, Recette d’éléphant à la sauce vieux pneu
Other Finalists:
  • Geneviève Côté, Le Premier Printemps du monde
  • Gérard Dubois, Le piano muet
  • Stéphane Jorisch, Thésée et le Minotaure
  • Stéphane Poulin, Annabel et la Bête

Translation - English to French

Winner:
  • Agnès Guitard - Un amour de Salomé
Other Finalists:
  • Yolande Amzallag, Le canari éthique: science, société et esprit humain
  • Paule Noyart, L’Or bleu: l’eau, nouvel enjeu stratégique et commercial
  • Hélène Paré, L’histoire spectacle: le cas du tricentenaire de Québec
  • Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, L’analyste

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