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2003 Governor General's Awards

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The 2003 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit: Finalists in 14 categories (70 books) were announced October 20, the four children's literature winners announced and presented November 10, other winners announced and presented November 12. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.

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The separate announcement and presentation of children's literature awards – four, recognizing text and illustration in English- and French-language books – was a novelty in 2003 (continued for at least a few years). The event at Rideau Hall, the Governor General's residence in Ottawa, was scheduled to begin at 10:00 on a Monday morning. "Children from across the National Capital Region will be invited to attend the event, which will also include readings and workshops related to children's literature."

Fiction

  • Douglas Glover, Elle
  • Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
  • Elizabeth Hay, Garbo Laughs
  • Jean McNeil, Private View
  • Edeet Ravel, Ten Thousand Lovers

    • Poetry

  • Tim Lilburn, Kill-site
  • Tim Bowling, The Witness Ghost
  • Evan Jones, Nothing Fell Today But Rain
  • Anne Simpson, Loop
  • Tom Wayman, My Father’s Cup

    • Drama

  • Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift
  • Marie Clements, Burning Vision
  • Brian Drader, Prok
  • Sunil Kuruvilla, Rice Boy
  • Michael Lewis MacLennan, Last Romantics

    • Non-fiction

  • Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
  • 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)

  • Glen Huser, Stitches
  • Sarah Ellis, The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
  • Barbara Haworth-Attard, Theories of Relativity
  • Kevin Major, Ann and Seamus
  • Judd Palmer, The Maestro

    • Children's literature (illustration)

  • Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart
  • 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

    • French-to-English translation

  • Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian’s Life
  • 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

    • Fiction

  • Élise Turcotte, La maison étrangère
  • Jean-François Chassay, L’Angle mort
  • Marie Gagnier, Console-moi
  • Gaétan Soucy, Music-Hall!
  • Larry Tremblay, Le Mangeur de bicyclette

    • Poetry

  • Pierre Nepveu, Lignes aériennes
  • Nicole Brossard, Cahier de roses & de civilisation
  • Carle Coppens, Le grand livre des entorses
  • Benoît Jutras, Nous serons sans voix
  • Louis-Jean Thibault, Géographie des lointains

    • Drama

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

    • Non-fiction

  • Thierry Hentsch, Raconter et mourir : aux sources narratives de l’imaginaire occidental
  • 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)

  • Danielle Simard, J’ai vendu ma soeur
  • 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)

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

    • English-to-French translation

  • Agnès Guitard, Un amour de Salomé
  • 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

    • References

    2003 Governor General's Awards Wikipedia
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