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

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 MacMillan - ""

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

* [http://www.canadacouncil.ca/news/releases/2003/qg127245397155625000.htm Press release announcing finalists]