2003 in literature

See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature.

Awards

• 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
• Hugo Award: Robert J. Sawyer, Hominids
• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award: Orhan Pamuk My Name is Red
• Newbery Medal for children's literature: Avi, Crispin: The Cross of Lead
• Nobel Prize for Literature: J. M. Coetzee
• Orange Prize for Fiction: Valerie Martin, Property
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
• Whitbread Book of The Year Award: Mark Haddon for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time: A Novel