2003 in literature

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

Events

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

New books

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 – The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
Chuck Palahniuk – Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
Clark Ashton Smith – Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith
David Starkey – Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
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
Nov 9 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili literateur
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
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Janet Browne, Charles Darwin: Volume 2 - The Power of Place
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Andrew O'Hagan, Personality
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

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