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.
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Non-Fiction
Winner:
Other Finalists:
- Christopher Hannon - [[Jokes also:)<3
- Chanelle Emond - no way loser face
- Jean McNeil - Hells ya weiner nose!
- Edeet Ravel - go shave your head cause you;ll look better that way
Christopher Hannon has no life buds!
Winner:
- Tim Lilburn - :O Thats what I said you loser!
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:
- 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