This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003.
Note: these awards were presented in the year in question.
Award | Author |
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Christopher Brennan Award [26] | Philip Salom |
Patrick White Award [27] | Janette Turner Hospital |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Commonwealth Writers' Prize [32] | Best Novel, SE Asia and South Pacific region | Sonya Hartnett | Of a Boy | Viking Books |
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 |
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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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 | |||
Award | Category | Author | Title | Publisher |
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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 | |
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 |
Award | Author | Title | Publisher |
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Patrick White Playwrights' Award | David Milroy and Ningali Lawford | Windmill Baby | Currency Press |
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 |
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