This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2003.
. . . 2003 in Australian literature . . .
- Peter Carey and Joan London join the list of authors who have withdrawn from contention for the Tasmania Pacific Region Prize.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.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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
- Elliot Perlman – Seven Types of Ambiguity
- D. B. C. Pierre – Vernon God Little
- Patricia Shaw – The Five Winds
- Sue Woolfe – The Secret Cure
. . . 2003 in Australian literature . . .
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