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The year 2003 in literature involved some significant new books.

New books[]

  • Peter Ackroyd - The Clerkenwell Tales
  • Atsuko Asano - No. 6
  • Paul Auster - Oracle Night
  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus
  • Mitch Albom - The Five People You Meet in Heaven
  • Martin Amis - Yellow Dog
  • Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
  • Max Barry - Jennifer Government
  • Greg Bear - Darwin's Children
  • Hilari Bell - Fall of a Kingdom
  • Thomas Berger - Best Friends
  • Giles Blunt - The Delicate Storm
  • Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code
  • Lars Saabye Christensen - Maskeblomstfamilien
  • Paolo 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
  • 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
    • The Asylum Vol 3 - The Quiet Ward
  • Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
  • Jennifer Haigh - Mrs. Kimble
  • Zoë Heller - Notes on a Scandal
  • Michel Houellebecq - Lanzarote
  • Pope John Paul II - Roman Triptych. Meditations
  • Alan Judd - The Kaiser's Last Kiss
  • 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
  • Magnus Mills - The Scheme for Full Employment
  • 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
  • DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little
  • Terry Pratchett - Monstrous Regiment and The Wee Free Men
  • Matthew Reilly - Scarecrow
  • 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 - Ecuador
  • Adam Thirlwell - Politics
  • Akira Toriyama - Tenshi no Tocchio
  • Sergio Troncoso - The Nature of Truth
  • Andrew Vachss - The Getaway Man
  • Irvine Welsh - Porno
  • Sean Williams & Shane Dix - Force Heretic: Remnant, Force Heretic: Refugee and Force Heretic: Reunion
  • Tobias Wolff - Old School
  • Roger Zelazny - Manna from Heaven

New drama[]

  • Richard Greenberg - The Violet Hour
  • Kwame Kwei-Armah - Elmina's Kitchen

Poetry[]

  • Dean Kalimniou - Kipos Esokleistos

Non-fiction[]

  • Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh
  • Gerina Dunwich – Dunwich's Guide to Gemstone Sorcery
  • Marc Ferro - Le livre noir du colonialisme
  • John Fowles – The Journals - Volume 1
  • James Frost – Merchant Princes, Halifax's First Family of Finance, Ships and Steel
  • 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
  • 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

Births[]

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
  • June 21 - Leon Uris, novelist
  • July 10 - Winston Graham, novelist
  • July 16 - Carol Shields, novelist
  • November 9 - Binod Bihari Verma, Maithili littérateur
  • December 2 - Alan Davidson, food writer

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

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

Elsewhere[]

  • International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red
  • Premio Nadal: Andrés Trapiello, Los amigos del crimen perfecto

See also[]

  • 2003 in comics
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