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Nobel Prize for Literature | Pulitzer Prizes | National Book Awards |
Booker Prize | Orange Prize |Whitbread Book Award | Nebula Awards
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
The Orange Prize for Fiction, U.K.
(June 2004):
Winner: Small Island (0755307496) by Andrea Levy (Review). No US edition at this time.
Edgar Allan Poe Awards
(May 2004):
Best Novel: Resurrection Men (Little Brown, 0316766844 ) by Ian Rankin
Best First Novel by an American Author: Death of a Nationalist (Soho Press, 1569473048 ) by Rebecca Pawel
Best Paperback Original: Find Me Again (Dundern Press, 1550024744 ) by Sylvia Maultash
Best Critical/Biographical: Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith (Bloomsbury, 1582341982 ) by Andrew Wilson
Best Fact Crime: The Devil in the White City (Crown Books, 0609608444 ) by Erik Larson
Best Short Story: “The Maids” – Blood on Their Hands (Berkeley Prime Crime, 0425190358) by G. Miki Hayden
Nebula Awards
(April 2004):
Novel: The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon (Ballantine, 0345447557)
Novella: “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, 0380977788)
Novelette: “The Empire of Ice Cream” by Jeffrey Ford
Short Story: “What I Didn’t See” by Karen Joy Fowler
Script: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Stephen Sinclair & Peter Jackson
Pulitzer Prizes for Literature
(April 2004):
Fiction: The Known World (0060557540) by Edward P. Jones (Amistad).
History: A Nation Under Our Feet (0674011694) by Steven Hahn (Belknap/Harvard University Press).
Biography: Khrushchev: The Man and His Era (cloth 0393051447, paper 0393324842) by William Taubman (W.W. Norton).
Poetry: Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (0375415181) by Franz Wright (Alfred A. Knopf).
General Non-Fiction: Gulag: A History (cloth 0767900561, paper 1400034094) by Anne Applebaum (Doubleday).
Drama: I Am My Own Wife (0571211747) by Doug Wright (Faber & Faber).
Whitbread Book Award, U.K.
(January 2004):
Whitbread First Novel Award: Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre (1841954608)
Whitbread Novel Award: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (0385509456).
Whitbread Poetry Award: Landing Light by Don Patterson (0571219934 U.K.) No U.S. edition at this time.
Whitbread Biography Award: Orwell: The Life by DJ Taylor (0805074732).
2003 National Book Awards
(November 2003):
FICTION: Shirley Hazzard for THE GREAT FIRE (0374278210)
NONFICTION: Carlos Eire for WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA: CONFESSIONS OF A CUBAN BOY (0743219651)
POETRY: C.K. Williams for THE SINGING (0374292868)
YOUNG PEOPLE'S LITERATURE: Polly Horvath for THE CANNING SEASON (0374399565)
DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LETTERS: Stephen King
2003 Booker Prize
(October 2003):
WINNER: Vernon God Little (1841954608) by DBC Pierre
SHORTLISTED:
Brick Lane (0743243307) by Monica Ali
Astonishing Splashes of Colour (0954130324) by Clare Morrall
Oryx and Crake (0385503857) by Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor (0802117643 – due March 2004) by Damon Galgut
What Was She Thinking: Notes on a Scandal (0805073337) by Zoe Heller
2003 Nobel Prize for Literature
(October 2003):
WINNER: John Maxwell Coetzee
Dusklands. 0140241779
In the Heart of the Country. 0140062289
Waiting for the Barbarians. 0140283358
Life and Times of Michael K. 0140074481
Foe. 014009623X
White Writing : On the Culture of Letters in South Africa. Currently OP
Age of Iron. 0140275657
Doubling the Point : Essays and Interviews. Currently OP
The Master of Petersburg. 0140238107
Giving Offense : Essays on Censorship. Cloth: 0226111741, Paper: 0226111768
Boyhood : Scenes from Provincial Life. 014026566X
Disgrace. Cloth: 0670887315, Paper: 0140296409
The Lives of Animals. Cloth: 0691004439, Paper: 069107089X
Stranger Shores : Essays, 1986–1999. Cloth: 0670899828, Paper: 0142001376
Youth. Cloth: 067003102X, Paper: 0670031305
Elizabeth Costello : Eight Lessons. NYP: 0670031305
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