2003 Governor General's Awards
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.[1]
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."[1]
English-language finalists[]
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 MacLennan, Last Romantics
Non-fiction[]
- Margaret MacMillan, Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World
- , 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
- , The Maestro
Children's literature (illustration)[]
- Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart
- , 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
- , 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[]
- Élise Turcotte, La maison étrangère
- , L'Angle mort
- , Console-moi
- Gaétan Soucy, Music-Hall!
- Larry Tremblay, Le Mangeur de bicyclette
Poetry[]
- Pierre Nepveu, Lignes aériennes
- Nicole Brossard, Cahier de roses & de civilisation
- , Le grand livre des entorses
- , Nous serons sans voix
- , Géographie des lointains
Drama[]
- Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Deux pas vers les étoiles
- , La société des loisirs
- François Létourneau, Cheech
- Wajdi Mouawad, Incendies
- , 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
- , 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
- , Gigi
- , Marie Quatdoigts
- , 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[]
- , Un amour de Salomé
- , Le canari éthique: science, société et esprit humain
- , L'Or bleu: l'eau, nouvel enjeu stratégique et commercial
- , L'histoire spectacle: le cas du tricentenaire de Québec
- Lori Saint-Martin and Paul Gagné, L'analyste
References[]
- ^ a b "The Canada Council for the Arts announces finalists for the 2003 Governor General's Literary Awards". News Releases – 2003. Canada Council (canadacouncil.ca). October 20, 2003. Archived 2013-05-29. Retrieved 2015-08-20.
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