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."[2]

English
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Douglas Glover, Elle
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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
Poetry Blue ribbon Tim Lilburn, Kill-site
Drama Blue ribbon Vern Thiessen, Einstein's Gift
Children's literature Blue ribbon Glen Huser, Stitches
Children's illustration Blue ribbon Allen Sapp, The Song Within My Heart
French to English translation Blue ribbon Jane Brierley, Memoirs of a Less Travelled Road: A Historian's Life

French
Category Winner Nominated
Fiction Blue ribbon Élise Turcotte, La maison étrangère
Non-fiction Blue ribbon 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
Poetry Blue ribbon 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 Blue ribbon Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Deux pas vers les étoiles
Children's literature Blue ribbon 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 illustration Blue ribbon Virginie Egger, Recette d'éléphant à la sauce vieux pneu
English to French translation Blue ribbon 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
  1. "Douglas Glover wins Gov. Gen.'s Literary Award for English fiction: Canadian living in New York State won prize for Elle, a fictionalized account of Gulf of St. Lawrence castaway". Cape Breton Post, November 13, 2003.
  2. "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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