2003 in literature

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Events

• SEPTEMBER 9: Barnes & Noble, the largest U.S. bookseller, announces that he will not sell downloadable e-books more

New Books

• Using the example of my brother - Uwe Timm
• The Consul - Christian v. Ditfurth
• Deafening - Frances Itani
• The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
• Drop City - T. C. Boyle
• Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho
• L' Empire des loups - Jean- Christophe Grangé
• Ezra (novel) - Maxim Biller
• Owl Moon - Hilde Kähler Timm
• Exponentialdrift - Andreas Eschbach
• The Time Traveler's Wife ends - Audrey Niffenegger
• A woman, an apartment, a novel - William Genazino
• Lost and Found (novel) - Siegfried Lenz
• Gertrud ( Schleef ) - Einar Schleef
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix JK Rowling
• The heart of the king - Viola Alvarez
• Guardian of the Dragon - Carole Wilkinson
• Me and Kaminski - Daniel Quinn
• Kingdom of Fear - Hunter S. Thompson
• Small Free Men - Terry Pratchett
• Campfire - Julia Franck
• Staff room (novel) - Markus Orth
• The last of his kind - Andreas Eschbach
• Declaration of Love (novel) - Michael Lentz
• The love lasts three years - Frédéric Beigbeder
• Oceans - Alban Nikolai autumn
• The Master ( Gerritsen ) - Tess Gerritsen
• Night of the oracle - Paul Auster
• The Orange Girl - Jostein Gaarder
• Oryx and Crake - Margaret Atwood
• Private matter - Horst Ehmke
• The Avengers (novel) - Frederick Forsyth
• Revolutions - Gustave Le Clézio Jean -Marie
• Rumo & The Miracles in the Dark - Walter Moers
• The Da Vinci Code (novel) - Dan Brown
• Snow in the Ardennes - Jürgen Becker
• Shutter Iceland - Dennis Lehane
• The Settlers of Catan (Book) - Rebecca Gablé
• Upstream - Margaret Elphinstone
• A day like a life - Nicholas Sparks
• Mortal sin (novel) - Tess Gerritsen
• The Unfinished - Reinhard Jirgl
• The Guardian - Dean Koontz
• The Return - Wolfgang hollow leg
• Wolf Moon (novel) - Stephen King
• The Broken Sky - Andrea Camilleri

Died

Literary Awards

• Booker Prize: DBC Pierre
• Danuta Gleed Literary Award: Lee Henderson, The Broken Record Technique
• German Science Fiction Price: Oliver Henkel, Emperor's
• Kurd - Laßwitz Price: Michael Marrak, Imagon
• Erich Fried Prize: Robert Schindel: Robert Manasseh
• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize: Carol Shields, Unless
• Peace Prize of the German Book Trade: Susan Sontag, American author
• Georg Büchner Prize: Alexander Kluge ( 1932)
• Giller Prize: M. G. Vassanji: The In -Between World of Vikram Lall
• See Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners
• Hubert Burda Prize for Young East European Poetry: Constantin Virgil Bănescu, Kateřina Vörös István Rudčenková and
• Ingeborg Bachmann Prize: Inca Parei
• Johann- Gottfried - Seume Prize for Literature: Wolfgang Büscher, Berlin - Moscow. A journey on foot
• Matt Cohen Award: Audrey Thomas
• National Book Award: Polly Horvath, The Canning Season
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
• Nobel Prize for Literature: J. M. Coetzee
• Austrian State Prize for European Literature: Cees Nooteboom
• Prix ​​Goncourt: Jacques- Pierre Amette Paul Clément, La Maîtresse de Brecht
• Pulitzer Prize, Division Non Fiction: Samantha Power, A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
• Whitbread Book of the Year Award: Mark Haddon ( English) for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night -Time: A Novel
• Oldenburg Children 's Books Price: Jens Thiele and Mirijam Günter