2003 Governor General's Awards
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The 2003 Governor General's Award
s for Literary Merit were announced on November 12. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.
Governor General's Award
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of awards presented by the Governor General of Canada, marking distinction in a number of academic, artistic and social fields. The first was conceived in 1937 by Lord Tweedsmuir, a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction who created the Governor...
s for Literary Merit were announced on November 12. Each winner received a cheque for $15,000.
Fiction
- Douglas GloverDouglas GloverDouglas Glover may refer to:* Douglas Glover , British politician* Douglas Glover , Canadian writer presently living in New York state...
, Elle - Margaret AtwoodMargaret AtwoodMargaret Eleanor Atwood, is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is among the most-honoured authors of fiction in recent history; she is a winner of the Arthur C...
, Oryx and CrakeOryx and CrakeOryx and Crake is a novel by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. Atwood has at times disputed the novel being science fiction, preferring to label it speculative fiction and "adventure romance" because it does not deal with 'things that have not been invented yet' and goes beyond the realism she... - Elizabeth HayElizabeth Hay (novelist)Elizabeth Grace Hay is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.Her novel A Student of Weather was a finalist for the Giller Prize and won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award...
, Garbo Laughs - Jean McNeilJean McNeilJean McNeil is a Canadian fiction and travel author.Born in New Brunswick, she grew up on Cape Breton in Nova Scotia. She is currently a writer-in-residence for the charity First Story...
, Private ViewPrivate viewA private view is a special viewing of an art exhibition by invitation only, normal at the start of a public exhibition. Typically wine and light refreshments are served on the form of a reception. If the artworks are by a living artist, it is normal for them to attend the private view.An opening... - Edeet RavelEdeet RavelEdeet Ravel is an Israeli-Canadian novelist born in Israel and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She currently lives in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.-Background:...
, Ten Thousand Lovers
Poetry
- Tim LilburnTim LilburnTim Lilburn is a Canadian poet and essayist. He is the author of several critically acclaimed collections of poetry, including Kill-site, To the River, Moosewood Sandhills and his latest work Going Home...
, Kill-site - Tim BowlingTim BowlingTim Bowling is a Canadian poet. He spent his youth in Ladner, British Columbia, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta...
, The Witness Ghost - Evan JonesEvan Jones (poet)-Biography:Born in Melbourne, 10 November 1931, Jones attended Melbourne High School, and studied at the University of Melbourne, and Stanford University . After 1960, he taught English at the University of Melbourne...
, Nothing Fell Today But Rain - Anne SimpsonAnne Simpson-Career:Simpson received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Queen’s University, and she also graduated in Fine Arts from OCAD University . Subsequently, she worked as a CUSO volunteer English teacher for two years in Nigeria. She teaches part-time at St...
, Loop - Tom WaymanTom WaymanThomas Ethan Wayman is a Canadian poet and academic.Born in Hawkesbury, Ontario, Wayman has lived most of his life in British Columbia. He studied at the University of British Columbia, Colorado State University, and the University of California, Irvine.Wayman has received the Canadian Authors...
, My Father’s Cup
Drama
- Vern ThiessenVern ThiessenVern Thiessen is a Canadian playwright.Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Thiessen studied at the University of Winnipeg and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He later attended the University of Alberta, where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts degree.Thiessen currently lives in Edmonton, Alberta and was...
, Einstein’s Gift - Marie ClementsMarie ClementsMarie Clements is a Métis playwright, performer, director, producer screenwriter, and founding artistic director of urban ink productions and fathom labs highway. Clements lives on Galiano Island British Columbia Canada...
, Burning Vision - Brian Drader, Prok
- Sunil Kuruvilla, Rice Boy
- Michael Lewis MacLennan, Last Romantics
Non-fiction
- Margaret MacMillanMargaret MacMillanMargaret Olwen MacMillan, OC is a historian and professor at the University of Oxford, where she is Warden of St. Antony's College. She is former provost of Trinity College and professor of history at the University of Toronto and previously, at Ryerson University...
, 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 VriesMaggie De VriesMaggie De Vries was born in Ontario, in 1961, but grew up in Vancouver. In her mid-to-late thirties, she was a substitute teacher for five years. Before that, in the late ’80s she worked for two years as the assistant to children’s author Jean Little , traveled with her all over Canada and the...
, Vancouver, for Missing Sarah: A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister - Ross KingRoss King (author)Ross King is a Canadian novelist and non-fiction writer. He began his career by writing two works of historical fiction in the 1990s, later turning to non-fiction, and has since written several critically acclaimed and best-selling historical works.-Novels and Books:King's first novel, Domino, ,...
, Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling
Children's literature (text)
- Glen HuserGlen HuserGlen Huser is a Canadian fiction writer.Vancouver School of Art, second year qualification, 1965; University of Alberta, B.Ed...
, Stitches - Sarah Ellis, The Several Lives of Orphan Jack
- Barbara Haworth-AttardBarbara Haworth-AttardBarbara Haworth-Attard is a Canadian children's author who lives in London, Ontario.- Works :*The Three Wishbells - 1995*Dark of the Moon - 1995*Home Child - 1996*Truth Singer - 1996*Buried Treasure - 1998...
, Theories of Relativity - Kevin MajorKevin MajorKevin Major is a Canadian author who lives in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador with his wife and two teenage sons. He writes for both young people and adults, including fiction, literary non-fiction, poetry, and plays....
, Ann and Seamus - Judd Palmer, The Maestro
Children's literature (illustration)
- Allen SappAllen SappAllen Sapp, OC, SOM is a Canadian Cree painter, currently living in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. His art and his story have become well known throughout Canada and has become an inspiration to many. His paintings tell a personal story. Many of his paintings feature images of his grandmother,...
, The Song Within My Heart - Nicolas Debon, Four Pictures by Emily Carr
- Rob GonsalvesRob GonsalvesRob Gonsalves is a Canadian painter of magic realism with a unique perspective and style. He produces original works, limited edition prints and illustrations for his own books....
, 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 ClaxtonPatricia ClaxtonPatricia Claxton is an award-winning Canadian translator, primarily of Quebec literature.A native of Kingston, Ontario, Patricia Claxton spent most of her childhood in India. Upon returning to Canada, she has made Montreal, Quebec's largest city, and Canada's second-largest, her permanent residence...
, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Jo-Anne Elder, Tales from Dog Island: St. Pierre et Miquelon
- David Homel and Fred A. ReedFred A. ReedFred A. Reed is a journalist and translator of literature who has published and translated several books.-Books:*Persian postcards: Iran after Khomemi. Talonbooks. 1994. ISBN 0889224439...
, The Heart Is an Involuntary Muscle - Susan Ouriou, Necessary Betrayals
Fiction
- Élise TurcotteÉlise TurcotteÉlise Turcotte is a Canadian writer who was born in Sorel, Quebec on June 26, 1957. She completed her BA and MA in literary studies at the University of Quebec and later received her doctorate at the University of Sherbrooke. She now teaches literature at a CEGEP in Montreal, where she currently...
, La maison étrangère - Jean-François Chassay, L’Angle mort
- Marie Gagnier, Console-moi
- Gaétan SoucyGaétan SoucyGaétan Soucy is a Canadian novelist and professor.Born in Montreal, Quebec, Soucy studied physics at Université de Montréal, completed a Master's degree in philosophy, and studied Japanese language and literature at McGill University....
, Music-Hall! - Larry Tremblay, Le Mangeur de bicyclette
Poetry
- Pierre NepveuPierre NepveuPierre Nepveu is a famous French Canadian poet, novelist and essayist. He specializes in Quebec modern poetry, in particular that of Gaston Miron...
, Lignes aériennes - Nicole BrossardNicole BrossardNicole Brossard, O.C. is a leading French Canadian formalist poet and novelist.She lives in Outremont, a former city in Montreal, Quebec. She wrote her first collection in 1965, Aube à la maison. The collection L'Echo bouge beau marks a break in the evolution of her poetry...
, Cahier de roses & de civilisation - Carle Coppens, Le grand livre des entorses
- Benoit JutrasBenoît JutrasBenoît Jutras is a Canadian composer known for his unique style of music, which usually includes erhus, bagpipes, and other exotic instruments. His most widely known works are the scores he has written for Cirque du Soleil, including O, Mystère, Quidam, and La Nouba...
, Nous serons sans voix - Louis-Jean Thibault, Géographie des lointains
Drama
- Jean-Rock Gaudreault, Deux pas vers les étoiles
- François Archambault, La société des loisirs
- François LétourneauFrançois LetourneauFrançois Letourneau is a Canadian slalom canoer who competed in the mid 1990s. He finished eighth in the C-2 event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.-References:*...
, Cheech - Wajdi MouawadWajdi MouawadWajdi Mouawad, OC is a Canadian writer, actor and director born in Lebanon in 1968. After living in France for a short time, he moved to Quebec in 1983.- Biography :He obtained his diploma from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1991....
, Incendies - Jean-Pierre Ronfard, Écriture pour le théâtre, tome III
Non-fiction
- Thierry Hentsch, Raconter et mourir : aux sources narratives de l’imaginaire occidental
- Michel MorinMichel MorinMichel Morin was a politician in Quebec, Canada and a three-term Member of the National Assembly of Quebec.-Background:He was born on March 27, 1948 in Saint-Célestin, Centre-du-Québec and made career in education. Before he ran for office, he was a political activist with the Progressive...
, 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 RobinRégine RobinRégine Robin is a historian, novelist, translator and professor of sociology. Her prolific fiction and non-fiction, primarily on the themes of identity and culture and on the sociological practice of literature, have earned a number of awards, including the Governor-General's Award in 1986...
, La mémoire saturée
Children's literature (text)
- 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 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
- 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