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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
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Other Finalists:
Poetry
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Tim Bowling , The Witness Ghost
- Evan Jones , Nothing Fell Today But Rain
- Anne Simpson , Loop
- Tom Wayman , My Father’s Cup
Drama
Winner:
- Vern Thiessen - Einstein’s Gift
Other Finalists:
- Marie Clements , Burning Vision
- Brian Drader , Prok
- Sunil Kuruvilla , Rice Boy
- Michael Lewis MacLennan, Last Romantics
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:
Other Finalists:
Children's Literature - Illustration
Winner:
- Allen Sapp , The Song Within My Heart
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:
- Pierre Nepveu - Lignes aériennes
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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