The 2003 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit: Finalists in 14 categories 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.
Marie Darrieussecq, is a French writer. She is also a translator, and has practised as a psychoanalyst.
Michel Jean is a Canadian television journalist and author. He is currently the weekend anchor of TVA Nouvelles on TVA, and was formerly an anchor on TVA's newsmagazine JE and for the 24-hour news channel RDI.
Jean-Louis Trudel is a Canadian science fiction writer. He was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and has lived in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal before moving to Quebec City, Quebec in 2010. He teaches history part-time at the University of Ottawa.
France Daigle is a Canadian author of Acadian ethnicity. Born and raised in Moncton, New Brunswick, she has published nine novels and three plays. She writes in French and has pioneered the use of the Chiac in her written dialogue. She uses standard French in her narration.
Jocelyne Saucier is a Canadian novelist and journalist based in Quebec.
The Prix Émile-Nelligan is a literary award given annually by the Fondation Émile-Nelligan to a North American French language poet under the age of 35. It was named in honour of the Quebec poet Émile Nelligan and was first awarded in 1979, the 100th anniversary of his birth.
Marie Laberge is a Quebec actress, educator and writer.
Le Combat des livres is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Première in Canada. A French edition of the Canada Reads competition, the program was launched in 2004. It aired annually from 2004 to 2014, and was then discontinued until being revived in 2018.
Normand de Bellefeuille (born 31 December 1949, in Montreal) is a Quebecois poet, writer, literary critic, and essayist. He is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for French-language poetry, winning at the 2000 Governor General's Awards for La Marche de l'aveugle sans son chien and at the 2016 Governor General's Awards for Le poème est une maison de bord de mer.
Dominique Robert is a Canadian writer living in Quebec.
Marie-Hélène Poitras is a Canadian writer living in Montreal, Quebec.
Naomi Fontaine is a Canadian writer from Quebec, noted as one of the most prominent First Nations writers in contemporary francophone Canadian literature. She is a member of the Innu nation.
Marie-Maude Denis is an investigative journalist and announcer working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal. Since 2008, she has been working on the public affairs program Enquête, and in September 2015 she is the successor to Alain Gravel.
Karoline Georges is a Canadian writer and multidisciplinary artist from Quebec, whose novel De synthèse won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction at the 2018 Governor General's Awards.
François Gravel is a Canadian writer from Quebec. Most noted as an author of literature for children and young adults, he has also published a number of adult novels.
Pier-Luc Funk is a Canadian film and television actor from Quebec. He is most noted for his role as Maxime in the 2018 film Genesis (Genèse), for which he received a Prix Iris nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 21st Quebec Cinema Awards.
Jean-François Beauchemin is a Canadian writer from Quebec. He is most noted as a two-time nominee for the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction, receiving nominations at the 2008 Governor General's Awards for Ceci est mon corps and at the 2009 Governor General's Awards for Cette année s'envole ma jeunesse.
Cécile Coulon is a French novelist, poet and short story writer. As of 2020, she has published seven novels, two poetry collections and one short story collection. She has been awarded the Prix des libraires (2017) and the prix Guillaume Apollinaire (2018)
Melchior Mbonimpa is a Burundian-Canadian writer. He is most noted for his novel Les morts ne sont pas morts, which won the Prix Christine-Dumitriu-Van-Saanen from the Salon du livre de Toronto in 2006. He was previously a finalist for the same award in 2002 for Le totem des Baranda, and in 2004 for Le dernier roi faiseur de pluie.
