2003 IN LITERATURE

The year '2003 in literature' involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

Events

New books

Non-fiction

New drama

Births

Deaths

Awards

Australia

Canada

United Kingdom

United States

Elsewhere

Events

★ September 9 - Barnes & Noble, the largest American bookseller, announces that it will no longer sell downloadable electronic texts sometimes called ebooks.

★ Chuck Palahniuk reads his short story "Guts" to audiences while on tour to promote his novel ''Diary''. Over 35 people faint while listening to the readings.

New books

★ Mitch Albom - ''The Five People You Meet in Heaven''

★ Asanaro - ''The Secret Art of Seamm Jasani''

★ Margaret Atwood - ''Oryx and Crake''

★ Max Barry - ''Jennifer Government''

★ Greg Bear - ''Darwin's Children''

★ Thomas Berger - ''Best Friends

★ Giles Blunt - ''The Delicate Storm''

★ Dan Brown - ''The Da Vinci Code''

★ Deborah Joy Corey - ''The Skating Pond''

★ Douglas Coupland - ''Hey Nostradamus!''

★ Julie E. Czerneda - ''Space, Inc.''

★ Richard A. Davidson - ''Welcome to Percotran''

★ Don DeLillo - ''Cosmopolis''

★ Cory Doctorow

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★ ''A Place So Foreign and Eight More''

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★ ''Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom''

★ Gerard Donovan - ''Schopenhaur's Telescope''

★ Fernanda Eberstadt - ''The Furies''

★ William Gibson -''Pattern Recognition''

★ Jean-Christophe Grangé - ''L'Empire des loups''

★ John Grisham - ''The King of Torts''

★ Mark Haddon - ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel''

★ Joanne Harris - ''Holy Fools''

★ Victor Heck - ''The Asylum Vol 2 - The Violent Ward''

★ Victor Heck - ''The Asylum Vol 3 - The Quiet Ward''

★ Khaled Hosseini - ''The Kite Runner''

★ Jennifer Haigh - ''Mrs. Kimble''

★ Zoë Heller - ''Notes on a Scandal''

★ Pope John Paul II ''Roman Triptych. Meditations''

★ Greg Keyes - ''The Final Prophecy''

★ Stephen King - ''Wolves of the Calla''

★ Dean R. Koontz - ''The Face''

★ Jonathan Lethem - ''The Fortress of Solitude''

★ James Luceno - ''The Unifying Force''

★ Steve Martini - ''The Arraignment''

★ Julie Myerson - ''Something Might Happen''

★ Andrew Neiderman - ''The Baby Squad''

★ Audrey Niffenegger - ''The Time Traveler's Wife''

★ Chuck Palahniuk - ''Diary''

★ Christopher Paolini - ''Eragon''

★ Terry Pratchett

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★ ''Monstrous Regiment''

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★ ''The Wee Free Men''

★ Matthew Reilly - ''Scarecrow''

★ Joel C. Rosenberg - ''

★ J. K. Rowling - ''Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix''

★ Nick Sagan - ''Idlewild''

★ Matthew Sharpe - ''The Sleeping Father''

★ Michael Slade - ''Bed of Nails''

★ Lemony Snicket - ''The Slippery Slope''

★ Wilbur Smith - ''Blue Horizon''

★ Olen Steinhauer - ''The Bridge of Sighs''

★ Neal Stephenson - ''Quicksilver'' (Vol. I of the Baroque Cycle)

★ Matthew Stover - ''Shatterpoint''

★ Anthony Swofford - ''Jarhead''

★ Miguel Sousa Tavares - ''Ecuador''

★ Adam Thirlwell - ''Politics''

★ Sergio Troncoso - ''The Nature of Truth''

★ The Getaway Man'' - Andrew Vachss

★ Sean Williams & Shane Dix

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★ ''

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★ Roger Zelazny - ''Manna from Heaven''

★ Garth Nix - ''Mister Monday''

Non-fiction

★ Gerina Dunwich – ''Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery''

★ John Fowles – ''The Journals - Volume 1''

★ James Frost – ''Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel''

★ Don Miller – ''Blue Like Jazz''

★ Michael Moore – ''Dude, Where's My Country?''

★ Alanna Nash – ''

★ Chuck Palahniuk – ''

★ Clark Ashton Smith – ''Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith''

★ David Starkey – ''

★ Lynne Truss – ''Eats, Shoots & Leaves''

★ Jane Smiley – ''Charles Dickens''

New drama

★ Nilo Cruz - ''Anna in the Tropics''

Births

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Deaths

★ February 16 - Aleksandar Tišma, Serb novelist

★ February 26 - Quentin Keynes, bibliophile

★ March 11 - Brian Cleeve, writer and broadcaster

★ September 3 - Alan Dugan, poet

★ March 12 - Howard Fast, American novelist

★ April 7 - Cecile de Brunhoff, children's author

★ June 21 - George Axelrod, dramatist and screenwriter

★ July 10 - Winston Graham, novelist

★ July 16 - Carol Shields, novelist

★ December 2 - Alan Davidson, food writer

Awards

★ Nobel Prize for Literature: J. M. Coetzee

Australia

★ The Australian/Vogel Literary Award: Nicholas Angel, ''Drown Them in the Sea''

★ C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry: Emma Lew, ''Anything the Landlord Touches''

★ Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry: Jill Jones, ''Screens Jets Heaven''

★ Miles Franklin Award: Alex Miller, ''Journey to the Stone Country''

Canada

★ Giller Prize: M.G. Vassanji - ''The In-Between World of Vikram Lall''

★ See 2003 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of the winners of those awards.

★ Griffin Poetry Prize: Margaret Avison, ''Concrete and Wild Carrot'' and Paul Muldoon, ''Moy sand and gravel''

United Kingdom

★ Cholmondeley Award: Ciaran Carson, Michael Donaghy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Jackie Kay

★ Eric Gregory Award: Jen Hadfield, Zoe Brigley, Paul Batchelor, Olivia Cole, Sasha Dugdale, Anna Woodford

★ Man Booker Prize: D.B.C. Pierre, ''Vernon God Little''

★ Orange Prize for Fiction: Valerie Martin, ''Property''

★ Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: U. A. Fanthorpe

★ Whitbread Book of The Year Award: Mark Haddon for ''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel''

United States

★ Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded to David Shumate for ''High Water Mark''

★ American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry, W.S. Merwin

★ Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry, Julie Sheehan for “Brown-headed Cow Birds”

★ Bollingen Prize for Poetry, Adrienne Rich

★ Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Brian Teare, ''The Room Where I Was Born''

★ Compton Crook Award: Patricia Bray, ''Devlin's Luck''

★ Frost Medal: Lawrence Ferlinghetti

★ Hugo Award: Robert J. Sawyer, ''Hominids''

★ Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, ''Crispin: The Cross of Lead''

★ Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, ''Middlesex''

★ Wallace Stevens Award: Richard Wilbur

Elsewhere

★ International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk ''My Name is Red''

★ Premio Nadal: Andrés Trapiello, ''Los amigos del crimen perfecto''