2003 in literature

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2003.

Events

February 12 – An invitation from the First Lady of the United States, Laura Bush, for some poets to attend a conference at the White House is postponed when one of them, Sam Hamill, organizes a "Poets Against the War" group for poetry readings across the United States on the same date.[1]
February 15 – Anti-war protests occur in London. They are later used as the setting for Ian McEwan's 2005 novel Saturday.[2]
March – The University of Mosul library is damaged and looted during the Iraq War, but many volumes are removed for protection by staff.
April 14 – The Iraq National Library and Archive is burned down during the Battle of Baghdad.[3]
April – Nicholas Hytner succeeds Sir Trevor Nunn as artistic director of London's Royal National Theatre.[4]
November 7 – UNESCO places among the Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity wayang kulit, a shadow puppet theatre and best known of the Indonesian wayang.[5]

New books

Films

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Deaths

January 5 – Jean Kerr, American author and playwright (born 1923)
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)
March 14 – Lucian Boz, Romanian and Australian literary critic (born 1908)
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 6 – Kathleen Raine, English poet, scholar, and translator (born 1908)[19]
July 10 – Winston Graham, English novelist (born 1908)[20]
July 14 – Éva Janikovszky, Hungarian novelist and children's writer (born 1926)
July 15 – Roberto Bolaño, Chilean-born fiction writer (born 1953)
July 16 – Carol Shields, American-born Canadian novelist (breast cancer; born 1935)[21]
September 3 – Alan Dugan, American poet (born 1923)
September 12 – Profira Sadoveanu, Romanian journalist, memoirist, biographer, editor and translator (born 1906)
September 24 – Derek Prince, English biblical scholar, author and radio presenter (born 1915)
September 25 – Edward Said, Palestinian-American literary critic (born 1935)[22]
November 9 – Alan Davidson, Northern Irish historian and food writer (born 1924)
December 3 – Sita Ram Goel, Indian historian, publisher and author (born 1921)
December 11 – Ahmadou Kourouma, Ivorian writer (born 1927)[23]
December 12 – Fadwa Toukan, Palestinian poet (born 1917)

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
Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction: Alison Watt, The Last Island[24]

Sweden

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award: Maurice Sendak and Christine Nöstlinger[25]

United Kingdom

Booker Prize: DBC Pierre, Vernon God Little
Caine Prize for African Writing: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, "Weight of Whispers"
Carnegie Medal for children's literature: Jennifer Donnelly, A Gathering Light[26]
Cholmondeley Award: Ciarán Carson, Michael Donaghy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Jackie Kay
David Cohen Prize: Beryl Bainbridge, Thom Gunn
Eric Gregory Award: Jen Hadfield, Zoë 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: Shirley Hazzard, The Great Fire
National Book Critics Circle Award: Edward P. Jones, The Known World
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead[27]
PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction: Sabina Murray, The Caprices
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

Other

Camões Prize: Rubem Fonseca
International Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red
Premio Nadal: Andrés Trapiello, Los amigos del crimen perfecto
SAARC Literary Award: Tissa Abeysekara, Laxman Gaikwad

Notes

Hahn, Daniel (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2nd ed.). Oxford. University Press. ISBN 9780198715542.

References

Knowles, Joe (2003-02-14). "Poets Against the War". In These Times. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2014-11-10.
Christopher Hitchens (April 2005). "Civilisation and its malcontents". The Atlantic (April 2005). Retrieved 17 January 2021.
Eskander, Saad (December 2004). "The Tale of Iraq's 'Cemetery of Books'". Information Today. 21 (11): 1–54.
"Hytner appointment welcomed". BBC News. 25 September 2001. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
Indonesian wayang Inscribed in 2003 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
Will Hammond (10 August 2003). "Old London calling". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
Lane, Harriet (1 June 2003). "Ali's in Wonderland". The Observer. Retrieved 31 May 2005.
Young, Richard (2011). Historical dictionary of Latin American literature and theater. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780810874985.
Charlotte Moore (24 May 2003). "Just the facts, ma'am". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
John Homans (March 10, 2003). "The Three Wives Club". New York. Retrieved 23 October 2021.
Stuhr, Rebecca (2009). Reading Khaled Hosseini. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780313355110.
Hahn 2015, p. 21
Hahn 2015, p. 332-333
Hahn 2015, p. 408
Hahn 2015, p. 492
Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265
Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.
Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012
Watts, Janet (8 July 2003). "Obituary: Kathleen Raine". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.
"Winston Graham obituary". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved March 9, 2015.
Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 18, 2003). "Carol Shields, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist, Dies at 68". The New York Times.
Bernstein, Richard (26 September 2003). "Edward W. Said, Literary Critic and Advocate for Palestinian Independence, Dies at 67". The New York Times. p. 23. Retrieved 6 June 2013.
Busby, Margaret (16 December 2003). "Ahmadou Kourouma". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01.
Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012
Hahn 2015, p. 653
Hahn 2015, p. 661
Hahn 2015, p. 658

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[1] Knowles, Joe (2003-02-14). "Poets Against the War". In These Times. Archived from the original on 2008-09-06. Retrieved 2014-11-10.

[2] Christopher Hitchens (April 2005). "Civilisation and its malcontents". The Atlantic (April 2005). Retrieved 17 January 2021.

[3] Eskander, Saad (December 2004). "The Tale of Iraq's 'Cemetery of Books'". Information Today. 21 (11): 1–54.

[4] "Hytner appointment welcomed". BBC News. 25 September 2001. Retrieved 17 January 2021.

[5] Indonesian wayang Inscribed in 2003 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

[6] Will Hammond (10 August 2003). "Old London calling". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

[7] Lane, Harriet (1 June 2003). "Ali's in Wonderland". The Observer. Retrieved 31 May 2005.

[8] Young, Richard (2011). Historical dictionary of Latin American literature and theater. Lanham, Md: Scarecrow Press. p. 185. ISBN 9780810874985.

[9] Charlotte Moore (24 May 2003). "Just the facts, ma'am". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

[10] John Homans (March 10, 2003). "The Three Wives Club". New York. Retrieved 23 October 2021.

[11] Stuhr, Rebecca (2009). Reading Khaled Hosseini. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood Press. p. 25. ISBN 9780313355110.

[12] Hahn 2015, p. 21

[13] Hahn 2015, p. 332-333

[14] Hahn 2015, p. 408

[15] Hahn 2015, p. 492

[16] Hahn 2015, pp. 264-265

[17] Olson, Danel (2011). 21st-century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000. Scarecrow Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-8108-7728-3.

[18] Goodreads, Into the Blue, Book review, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[19] Watts, Janet (8 July 2003). "Obituary: Kathleen Raine". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 October 2018.

[20] "Winston Graham obituary". The Independent. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved March 9, 2015.

[21] Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 18, 2003). "Carol Shields, Pulitzer-Prize Winning Novelist, Dies at 68". The New York Times.

[22] Bernstein, Richard (26 September 2003). "Edward W. Said, Literary Critic and Advocate for Palestinian Independence, Dies at 67". The New York Times. p. 23. Retrieved 6 June 2013.

[23] Busby, Margaret (16 December 2003). "Ahmadou Kourouma". The Independent. London. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01.

[24] Faculty of Arts, 2003, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It, Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Alison Watt, Retrieved 11/27/2012

[25] Hahn 2015, p. 653

[26] Hahn 2015, p. 661

[27] Hahn 2015, p. 658