2003 in literature
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This article presents lists of literary events and publications in 2003.
Contents
Events
- February 12 – An invitation from First Lady of the United States Laura Bush for a number of poets to attend a conference at the White House on this date is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group which arranges poetry readings across the U.S. on this date.[1]
- April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down as part of the Battle of Baghdad.[2]
- October – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of the British National Theatre in London.
- November 7 – UNESCO designates wayang kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and the best known of the Indonesian wayang, as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.[3]
New books
- Peter Ackroyd – The Clerkenwell Tales
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Purple Hibiscus
- Mitch Albom – The Five People You Meet in Heaven
- Martin Amis – Yellow Dog
- Atsuko Asano – No. 6
- Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake
- Paul Auster – Oracle Night
- Max Barry – Jennifer Government
- Greg Bear – Darwin's Children
- Hilari Bell – Fall of a Kingdom
- Thomas Berger – Best Friends
- Giles Blunt – The Delicate Storm
- Frank Brennan – Tampering with Asylum
- Dan Brown – The Da Vinci Code
- Angus Peter Campbell – An Oidhche Mus Do Sheol Sinn
- Lars Saabye Christensen – Maskeblomstfamilien
- Paulo Coelho – Eleven Minutes
- J. M. Coetzee – Elizabeth Costello
- Deborah Joy Corey – The Skating Pond
- Bernard Cornwell – Sharpe's Havoc, Sharpe's Christmas and Heretic
- Douglas Coupland – Hey Nostradamus!
- Robert Crais – The Last Detective
- Julie E. Czerneda – Space, Inc.
- Jeffery Deaver – Twisted
- Don DeLillo – Cosmopolis
- Cory Doctorow – A Place So Foreign and Eight More and Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
- Gerard Donovan – Schopenhauer's Telescope
- Fernanda Eberstadt – The Furies
- Rodrigo Fresán – Jardines de Kensington
- Anna Gavalda – I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere (translation)
- 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
- Vol 3 – The Quiet Ward
- Jennifer Haigh – Mrs. Kimble
- Zoë Heller – Notes on a Scandal
- Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
- Michel Houellebecq – Lanzarote
- Alan Judd – The Kaiser's Last Kiss
- Thomas Keneally – The Tyrant's Novel
- Greg Keyes – The Final Prophecy
- Stephen King – Wolves of the Calla
- Dean R. Koontz – The Face
- Jhumpa Lahiri – The Namesake
- Dennis Lehane – Shutter Island
- Jonathan Lethem – The Fortress of Solitude
- James Luceno – The Unifying Force
- Marshall Islands legends and stories, collected and edited by Daniel A. Kelin II
- Steve Martini – The Arraignment
- Magnus Mills – The Scheme for Full Employment
- Paul Murray – An Evening of Long Goodbyes
- Julie Myerson – Something Might Happen
- Andrew Neiderman – The Baby Squad
- Audrey Niffenegger – The Time Traveler's Wife
- Garth Nix – Mister Monday
- Chuck Palahniuk – Diary
- Christopher Paolini – Eragon
- Carolyn Parkhurst – The Dogs of Babel
- Per Petterson – Out Stealing Horses (Ut og stjæle hester)
- DBC Pierre – Vernon God Little
- Terry Pratchett – Monstrous Regiment and The Wee Free Men
- Jean Raspail – Les Royaumes de Borée
- Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow
- Nina Revoyr – Southland
- J. Jill Robinson – Residual Desire
- 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 – Equador
- Adam Thirlwell – Politics
- Akira Toriyama – Toccio the Angel (Tenshi no Tocchio)
- Sergio Troncoso – The Nature of Truth
- Andrew Vachss – The Getaway Man
- Mario Vargas Llosa – The Way to Paradise (El paraíso en la otra esquina)
- Jo Walton – Tooth and Claw
- Irvine Welsh – Porno
- Sean Williams and Shane Dix – Force Heretic: Remnant, Force Heretic: Refugee and Force Heretic: Reunion
- Tobias Wolff – Old School
- Roger Zelazny – Manna from Heaven (short stories)
New drama
- Richard Greenberg – The Violet Hour
- David Hare – The Permanent Way
- Kwame Kwei-Armah – Elmina's Kitchen
- Lynn Nottage – Intimate Apparel
Poetry
Non–fiction
- Banglapedia – National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
- Patricia Brown – A League Of My Own: Memoir of a Pitcher for the All-American Girls
- Andrea Curtis – Into the Blue[4]
- Gerina Dunwich – Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery
- Marc Ferro – Le Livre noir du colonialisme
- John Fowles – The Journals – Volume 1
- Anna Funder – Stasiland
- Mattias Gardell – Gods of the Blood
- A. C. Grayling – What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live
- Erik Larson – The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
- Don Miller – Blue Like Jazz
- Michael Moore – Dude, Where's My Country?
- Azar Nafisi – Reading Lolita in Tehran
- Alanna Nash – The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel Tom Parker and Elvis Presley
- Chuck Palahniuk – Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon
- Jane Smiley – Charles Dickens
- Clark Ashton Smith – Selected Letters of Clark Ashton Smith
- David Starkey – Six Wives: The Queens of Henry VIII
- Lynne McTaggart – The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
- Lynne Truss – Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Births
Deaths
- January 21 – Paul Haines, American-born Canadian poet and songwriter (born 1933)
- February 16 – Aleksandar Tišma, Serbian novelist (born 1924)
- February 26 – Quentin Keynes, English explorer, writer and filmmaker (born 1921)
- March 11 – Brian Cleeve, English-born Irish writer and broadcaster (born 1921)
- March 12 – Howard Fast, American novelist (born 1914)
- April 3 – Michael Kelly, American journalist (born 1957)
- April 7 – Cecile de Brunhoff, French children's writer (born 1903)
- June 21
- George Axelrod, American dramatist and screenwriter (born 1922)
- Leon Uris, American novelist (born 1924)
- July 10 – Winston Graham, English novelist (born 1908)
- July 14 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer (born 1926)
- July 16 – Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (breast cancer, born 1935)
- September 3 – Alan Dugan, American poet (born 1923)
- November 9 – Alan Davidson, Northern Irish historian and food writer (born 1924)
- December 12 – Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet (born 1917)
Awards
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
- Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Alison Watt, The Last Island[5]
United Kingdom
- Booker Prize: D.B.C. Pierre, Vernon God Little
- Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light
- Cholmondeley Award: Ciarán 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
- Orange Prize for Fiction: Valerie Martin, Property
- Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: U. A. Fanthorpe
- Whitbread Book of The Year Award: Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel
United States
- Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize: David Shumate, High Water Mark
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal in Poetry: W.S. Merwin
- Bernard F. Connors Prize for Poetry: Julie Sheehan, “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
- Lambda Literary Awards: Multiple categories; see 2003 Lambda Literary Awards.
- National Book Award for Fiction: to The Great Fire by Shirley Hazzard
- National Book Critics Circle Award: to The Known World by Edward P. Jones
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: to The Caprices by Sabina Murray
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
- Wallace Stevens Award: Richard Wilbur
- Whiting Awards:
- Fiction: Courtney Angela Brkic (fiction/nonfiction), Alexander Chee, Agymah Kamau, Ann Pancake, Lewis Robinson, Jess Row
- Nonfiction: Christopher Cokinos, Trudy Dittmar
- Plays: Sarah Ruhl
- Poetry: Major Jackson
Elsewhere
- International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red
- Premio Nadal: Andrés Trapiello, Los amigos del crimen perfecto
See also
References
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- ↑ Indonesian wayang Inscribed in 2003 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
- ↑ Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012
- ↑ Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012
