- 2003 in literature
The year 2003 in literature involved some significant events and new books.
Events
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September 9 -Barnes & Noble , the largest American bookseller, announces that it will no longer sell downloadable electronic texts sometimes calledebook s.New books
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Mitch Albom - "The Five People You Meet in Heaven "
*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 "
*Bernard Cornwell - "Sharpe's Havoc ", "Sharpe's Christmas " and "Heretic"
*Douglas Coupland - "Hey Nostradamus! "
*Julie E. Czerneda - "Space, Inc. "
*Richard A. Davidson - "Welcome to Percotran "
*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 "
*William Gibson -"Pattern Recognition"
*Jean-Christophe Grangé - "L'Empire des loups "
*John Grisham - "The King of Torts "
*Mark Haddon - ""
*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 - "Monstrous Regiment" and "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 theBaroque 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 - ', ' and ""
*Roger Zelazny - "Manna from Heaven "
*Garth Nix - "Mister Monday "Non-fiction
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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
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Nilo Cruz - "Anna in the Tropics "Births
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Deaths
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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 writerAwards
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Nobel Prize for Literature :J. M. Coetzee Australia
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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
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Giller Prize :M.G. Vassanji - "The In-Between World of Vikram Lall "
* See2003 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of the winners of those awards.
*Griffin Poetry Prize :Margaret Avison , "Concrete and Wild Carrot" andPaul Muldoon , "Moy sand and gravel"United Kingdom
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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
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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize awarded toDavid 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 forchildren's literature : Avi, "Crispin: The Cross of Lead"
*Pulitzer Prize for Fiction :Jeffrey Eugenides , "Middlesex"
*Wallace Stevens Award :Richard Wilbur Elsewhere
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International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award :Orhan Pamuk "My Name is Red"
*Premio Nadal :Andrés Trapiello , "Los amigos del crimen perfecto"
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