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

Contents

1 English-language finalists 1.1 Fiction 1.2 Poetry 1.3 Drama 1.4 Nonfiction 1.5 Children's Literature - Text 1.6 Children's Literature - Illustration 1.7 Translation (French to English) 2 French language finalists 2.1 Fiction 2.2 Poetry 2.3 Drama: 2.4 Non-Fiction 2.5 Children's Literature - Text 2.6 Children's Literature - Illustration 2.7 Translation - English to French 3 External links 4 Other Governor General's Awards:

English-language finalists

Fiction

Winner:

• Douglas Glover - Elle

Other Finalists:

• Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
• Elizabeth Hay - Garbo Laughs
• Jean McNeil - Private View
• Edeet Ravel - Ten Thousand Lovers

Poetry

Winner:

• Tim Lilburn - Kill-site

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:

• Margaret Olwen MacMillan - Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World

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:

• 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

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:

• Élise Turcotte - La maison étrangère

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

External links

• Press release announcing finalists (http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2003/qg127245397155625000.htm)

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