- Source: 2003 in Australian literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003.
Events
Peter Carey and Joan London join the list of authors who have withdrawn from contention for the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize. In 2002 Richard Flanagan and Tim Winton also declined to have their books nominated for the prize in protest at the involvement of Forestry Tasmania as a sponsor of the Ten Days on the Island festival at which the award winner is to be announced.
Members of The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) voted in their Society's 40th anniversary poll to select Australia's favourite book. Tim Winton's Cloudstreet headed the poll followed by The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead and The Fortunes of Richard Mahony by Henry Handel Richardson.
Nevil Shute's 1950 novel, A Town Like Alice was included in a BBC-sponsored UK survey of 100 popular novels, but has failed to make a similar Australian list.
Major publications
= Literary fiction
=Alan Atwood – Burke's Soldier
Peter Carey – My Life as a Fake
Brian Castro – Shanghai Dancing
J. M. Coetzee – Elizabeth Costello
Julian Davies – The Boy
Nikki Gemmell – The Bride Stripped Bare
Peter Goldsworthy – Three Dog Night
Shirley Hazzard – The Great Fire
Kathryn Heyman – The Accomplice
Janette Turner Hospital – Due Preparations for the Plague
M. J. Hyland – How the Light Gets In
Annamarie Jagose – Slow Water
Nada A. Jarrar – Somewhere, Home
Tom Keneally – The Tyrant's Novel
Kathy Lette – Dead Sexy
Colleen McCullough – The Touch
Nerida Newton – The Lambing Flat
Elliot Perlman – Seven Types of Ambiguity
D. B. C. Pierre – Vernon God Little
Patricia Shaw – The Five Winds
Sue Woolfe – The Secret Cure
= Children's and Young Adult fiction
=Pamela Allen – Cuthbert's Babies
Paul Collins – The Earthborn
Kate Constable – The Waterless Sea
Marianne Curley – The Dark
Justin D'Ath – Shaedow Master
Garry Disher – Eva's Angel
John Heffernan – GBH
Melina Marchetta – Saving Francesca
David Metzenthen – Boys of Blood & Bone
Jaclyn Moriarty – Finding Cassie Crazy
Martine Murray – How to Make a Bird
Garth Nix
Abhorsen
Mister Monday
Emily Rodda – Rowan of the Bukshah
Janeen Webb – The Silken Road to Samarkand
= Crime
=Kirsty Brooks – The Vodka Dialogue
Ian Callinan – Appointment at Amalfi
Jon Cleary – Degrees of Connection
Peter Corris – Master's Mates
Michelle de Kretser – The Hamilton Case
Garry Disher – Kittyhawk Down
Kerry Greenwood – The Castlemaine Murders: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Wayne Grogan – Junkie Pilgrim
Gabrielle Lord – Lethal Factor
Barry Maitland – The Verge Practice
Matthew Reilly – Scarecrow
Gregory David Roberts – Shantaram
Michael Robotham – The Suspect
Steve J. Spears – Murder at the Fortnight
Peter Temple – White Dog
Lee Tulloch – The Cutting: A Nullin Mystery
Robin Wallace-Crabbe – The Forger
= Romance
=Ally Blake – The Wedding Wish
Lucy Clark – Englishman at Dingo Creek
Barbara Hannay – A Wedding at Windaroo
Stephanie Laurens – A Gentleman's Honor
Di Morrissey – Barra Creek
Candice R. Proctor – Beyond Sunrise
Meredith Webber – Outback Encounter
= Science Fiction and Fantasy
=Max Barry – Jennifer Government
K. A. Bedford – Orbital Burn
K. J. Bishop – The Etched City
Russell Blackford – An Evil Hour
Trudi Canavan – The High Lord
Bill Congreve – Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
Cecilia Dart-Thornton – The Battle of Evernight
Sara Douglass – God's Concubine
Jennifer Fallon
Eye of the Labyrinth
Lord of the Shadows
Lian Hearn – Grass for His Pillow
Ian Irvine – Terminator Gene
Victor Kelleher – Born of the Sea
Glenda Larke – The Aware
Fiona McIntosh – Myrren's Gift
Anthony O'Neill – The Lamplighter
Kate Orman – Blue Box
Tony Shillitoe – Freedom
Kim Wilkins – The Autumn Castle
Sean Williams and Shane Dix – Heirs of Earth
= Drama
=Mireille Juchau – White Gifts
Hannie Rayson – Inheritance
Henri Szeps – One Life, Two Journeys
David Williamson – Birthrights
= Poetry
=Judith Beveridge – Wolf Notes
Laurie Duggan – Mangroves
Stephen Edgar – Lost in the Foreground
Clive James – The Book of My Enemy : Collected Verse, 1958–2003
John Kinsella – Peripheral Light
= Non-fiction
=Fiona Capp – That Oceanic Feeling
Inga Clendinnen – Dancing with Strangers
Patricia Crawford and Ian Crawford – Contested Country: A History of the Northcliffe Area
David Hollinsworth – They Took the Children
Stuart Macintyre and Anna Clark – The History Wars
Peter Robb – A Death in Brazil
= Biographies
=Graeme Blundell – King: The Life and Comedy of Graham Kennedy
Lorraine Day – Gordon of Dingley Dell: The Life of Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–1870): Poet and Horseman
Edward Duyker – Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834)
Greg Growden – The Snowy Baker Story
Tom Keneally – Abraham Lincoln
Jonathan King – Gallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell
Garry Linnell – Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett
Peter Singer – Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
Nicholas Thomas – Discoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook
Anne Whitehead – Bluestocking in Patagonia
Awards and honours
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
= Lifetime achievement
== Literary
== Fiction
=International
National
= Children and Young Adult
=National
= Crime and Mystery
=National
= Science fiction
== Poetry
== Drama
== Non-Fiction
=Deaths
16 March – Susan McGowan, poet (born 1907)
18 March – Julie Lewis, short story writer (born 1925)
30 March – Nick Enright, playwright and screenwriter (born 1950)
2 April – Joan Phipson, writer for children and young adults (born 1912)
20 April – Bill Wannan, editor (born 1915)
1 May – Stephen Estaban Kelen, dramatist (born 1912)
28 June – Clem Christesen, poet and founding editor of Meanjin (born 1911)
30 June – Oriel Gray, playwright and screenwriter (born 1920)
23 November – Hesba Brinsmead, writer for children (born 1922)
See also
2003 in Australia
2003 in literature
2003 in poetry
List of years in literature
List of years in Australian literature
References
Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.
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