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2003 in Australian literature

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This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003.

Events

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Major publications

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Literary fiction

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Children's and Young Adult fiction

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Crime

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Romance

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Science Fiction and Fantasy

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Drama

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Poetry

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Non-fiction

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  • Fiona Capp – That Oceanic Feeling
  • Inga ClendinnenDancing 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 RobbA Death in Brazil

Biographies

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  • Graeme BlundellKing: 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 DuykerCitizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755–1834)
  • Greg GrowdenThe Snowy Baker Story
  • Tom KeneallyAbraham Lincoln
  • Jonathan KingGallipoli: Our Last Man Standing: The Extraordinary Life of Alec Campbell
  • Garry Linnell – Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett
  • Peter SingerPushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
  • Nicholas ThomasDiscoveries: The Voyages of Captain Cook
  • Anne Whitehead – Bluestocking in Patagonia

Awards and honours

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Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.

Lifetime achievement

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Award Author
Christopher Brennan Award[26] Philip Salom
Patrick White Award[27] Janette Turner Hospital

Literary

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Award Author Title Publisher
The Age Book of the Year Award[28] Sonya Hartnett Of a Boy Viking
ALS Gold Medal[29] Kate Jennings Moral Hazard Picador
Colin Roderick Award[30] Tom Keneally The Tyrant's Novel Doubleday
Nita Kibble Literary Award[31] Gail Jones Black Mirror Picador

Fiction

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International

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Commonwealth Writers' Prize[32] Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region Sonya Hartnett Of a Boy Viking Books

National

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[33] Not awarded
The Age Book of the Year Award[28] Sonya Hartnett Of a Boy Viking Books
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award[34] Nicholas Angel Drown Them in the Sea Allen and Unwin
Ruth Balint Troubled Waters Allen and Unwin
Miles Franklin Award[35] Alex Miller Journey to the Stone Country Allen & Unwin
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kate Jennings Moral Hazard Fourth Estate
Nita Kibble Literary Award Gail Jones Black Mirror Picador
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Janette Turner Hospital Due Preparations for the Plague HarperCollins
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Brian Castro Shanghai Dancing Giramondo Publishing
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Gail Jones Black Mirror Picador

Children and Young Adult

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National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Children's Book of the Year Award Older Readers Markus Zusak The Messenger Macmillan Publishers
Younger Readers Catherine Bateson Rain May and Captain Daniel University of Queensland Press
Picture Book Norman Jorgensen, illus. Brian Harrison-Lever In Flanders Fields Fremantle Arts Centre Press
Early Childhood Penny Matthews, illus. Andrew McLean A Year on Our Farm Omnibus Books
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Children's Simon French Where in the World Little Hare Books
Young People's Markus Zusak The Messenger Macmillan Publishers
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Children's Catherine Bateson Rain May and Captain Daniel University of Queensland Press
Young Adult David Metzenthen Boys of Blood and Bone Penguin Books
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction Margo Lanagan Black Juice Allen & Unwin
Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Writing for Young Adults Colin Bowles Nights in the Sun Penguin Books
Children's Mark Greenwood The Legend of Lasseter's Reef Cygnet Books

Crime and Mystery

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National

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Davitt Award[36] Novel Gabrielle Lord Baby Did a Bad, Bad Thing Hodder Headline Australia
Alex Palmer Blood Redemption HarperCollins
Readers' Choice Cathy Cole Skin Deep Duffy and Snellgrove
Young Adult Novel Natalie Jane Prior Fireworks and Darkness Angus & Robertson
Ned Kelly Award[37] Novel Peter Temple White Dog Text Publishing
First novel Alex Palmer Blood Redemption HarperCollins
True crime Peter Lalor Blood Stain Allen & Unwin
Lifetime Achievement Kerry Greenwood

Science fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Aurealis Award Sf Novel Jonathan Blum and Kate Orman Fallen Gods Telos Publishing
Sf Short Story Brendan Duffy "Louder Echo" Agog! Terrific Tales
Fantasy Novel Garth Nix Abhorsen Allen and Unwin
Fantasy Short Story Lucy Sussex "La Sentinelle" Southern Blood: New Australian Tales of the Supernatural
Horror Novel Victor Kelleher Born of the Sea Viking Books
Horror Short Story Simon Brown "Love is a Stone" Gathering the Bones
Young Adult Novel Garth Nix Abhorsen Allen and Unwin
Carole Wilkinson Dragonkeeper Black Dog Books
Ditmar Award Novel Sean Williams and Shane Dix Echoes of Earth HarperCollins
Short Fiction Deborah Biancotti "King of All and The Metal Sentinel" Agog! Fantastic Fiction
Collected Work Cat Sparks ed. Agog! Fantastic Fiction Agog! Press

Poetry

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Award Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[33] Not awarded
The Age Book of the Year[28] Laurie Duggan Mangroves University of Queensland Press
Anne Elder Award[38] Chris Andrews Cut Lunch Indigo
Kathryn Lomer Extraction of Arrows University of Queensland Press
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry[39] Stephen Edgar Lost in the Foreground Duffy & Snellgrove
Mary Gilmore Prize[40] Not awarded
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Jill Jones Screens Jets Heaven: New and Selected Poems Salt Publishing
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Emma Lew Anything the Landlord Touches Giramondo Publishing

Drama

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Award Author Title Publisher
Patrick White Playwrights' Award David Milroy and Ningali Lawford Windmill Baby Currency Press

Non-Fiction

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Award Category Author Title Publisher
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature[33] Non-Fiction Not awarded
The Age Book of the Year[28] Non-Fiction Ann Galbally Charles Condor: The Last Bohemian Miegunyah Press
National Biography Award[41] Biography Peter Rose Rose Boys Allen & Unwin
Don Watson Recollections of a Bleeding Heart : a Portrait of Paul Keating PM Random House
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Non-Fiction Mark McKenna Looking for Blackfellas' Point: An Australian History of Place University of New South Wales Press
New South Wales Premier's History Awards Australian History James Bowen and Margarita Bowen The Great Barrier Reef: History, Science,
Heritage
Cambridge University Press
Community and Regional History Erik Eklund Steel Town: The Making and Breaking of Port Kembla Melbourne University Press
General History David Garrioch The Making of Revolutionary Paris University of California Press
Young People's Alan Tucker My Story: The Bombing of Darwin, The Diary of Tom Taylor Scholastic Press
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Non-fiction Margaret Simons Meeting of the Waters Hachette Australia
History Richard Bosworth Mussolini Oxford University Press
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-fiction Graeme Davison Car Wars: How the Car Won Our Hearts and Conquered Our Cities Allen & Unwin

Deaths

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Austlit Gateway News March/April 2003
  2. ^ Austlit Gateway News July/August 2003
  3. ^ Austlit Gateway News September/October 2003
  4. ^ "Burke's Soldier by Alan Atwood". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  5. ^ "The Boy by Julian Davies". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Austlit — The Accomplice by Kathryn Heyman". Austlit. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Due Preparations for the Plague by Janette Turner Hospital". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  8. ^ "How the Light Gets In by M. J. Hyland". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  9. ^ "Somewhere, Home by Nada Awar Jarrar". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  10. ^ "Dead Sexy by Kathy Lette". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  11. ^ "Austlit — The Five Winds by Patricia Shaw". Austlit. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  12. ^ "The Secret Cure by Sue Woolfe". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  13. ^ "Orbital Burn by K. A. Bedford". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  14. ^ "An Evil Hour by Russell Blackford". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  15. ^ "The High Lord by Trudi Canavan". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  16. ^ "God's Concubine by Sara Douglass". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  17. ^ "Lord of the Shadows by Jennifer Fallon". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  18. ^ "Born of the Sea by Victor Kelleher". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  19. ^ "The Aware by Glenda Larke". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  20. ^ "Myrren's Gift by Fiona McIntosh". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  21. ^ "The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  22. ^ "Blue Box by Kate Orman". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  23. ^ "Freedom by Tony Shillitoe". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  24. ^ "The Autumn Castle by Kim Wilkins". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  25. ^ "Heirs of Earth by Sean Williams & Shane Dix". ISFDB. Retrieved 26 May 2024.
  26. ^ "Austlit — FAW Christopher Brennan Award". Austlit. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  27. ^ "Austlit — Patrick White Award - Past Winners". Austlit. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  28. ^ a b c d ""No need for a `real job' after book wins prize"". The Age, 22 August 2003, p3. ProQuest 363610086. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
  29. ^ "ALS Gold Medal — Previous Winners". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  30. ^ "Colin Roderick Award — Other Winners". James Cook University. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  31. ^ "Kibble Literary Award". Australian National University. Retrieved 26 February 2024.
  32. ^ "Commonwealth Writers' Prize Regional Winners 1987-2007" (PDF). Commonwealth Foundation. Retrieved 18 January 2024.
  33. ^ a b c "Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature – Past Literary Award Winners". State Library of South Australia. Retrieved 18 April 2024.
  34. ^ ""Austlit – Australian/Vogel Award 2003-2005"". Austlit. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  35. ^ "Austlit — Miles Franklin Literary Award (1957-)". Austlit. Retrieved 21 September 2023.
  36. ^ ""LibraryThing: Davitt Awards 2003"". LibraryThing. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  37. ^ "2003 Ned Kelly Award Winners". Australian Crime Writers. Archived from the original on 27 March 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2024.
  38. ^ "Austlit — Anne Elder Award 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  39. ^ "Austlit — Grace Leven Poetry Prize 2002-2004". Austlit. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  40. ^ "Mary Gilmore Award". Association for the Study of Australian Literature. Retrieved 13 February 2024.
  41. ^ ""National Biography Award – Past Winners"". State Library of NSW. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  42. ^ "Nick Enright". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. The University of Queensland. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  43. ^ "Austlit — Clem Christesen (1911-1999)". Austlit. Retrieved 23 November 2023.

Note: all references relating to awards can, or should be, found on the relevant award's page.