BOOK AWARDS
Man Booker prize 2003
http://www.themanbookerprize.com
Awarded in October, the prize is now officially called the Man Booker Prize, in honour of its sponsor until 2006, global investment broker Man Group while retaining the name of its original sponsor, food distribution firm Booker, which established the prize in 1969 to encourage interest in contemporary fiction.
Awarded to the best full-length novel of the year, the prize is open to authors from the UK, Ireland and the Commonwealth, the winner receiving £50,000, with £2,500 for each of the six shortlisted authors. This year's longlist of 23 books was chosen from a total of 117 entries.
The judging panel for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2003 was: writer, academic and broadcaster Professor John Carey (Chair); writer, academic and critic A.C. Grayling; record-breaking mountaineer and journalist Rebecca Stephens, MBE; novelist, broadcaster and presenter Francine Stock and novelist, biographer and literary critic D.J. Taylor.
Winner 2004 (announced mid October)
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Shortlist (announced mid-September)
Brick Lane by Monica Ali
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
The Good Doctor by Damon Galgut
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Astonishing Splashes of Colour by Clare Morrall
Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre
Longlist (announced mid August)
| Title | Author | Publisher | ISBN |
| Brick Lane | Monica Ali | Doubleday | 038560484x |
| Yellow Dog | Martin Amis | Jonathan Cape | 0224050613 |
| Oryx and Crake | Margaret Atwood | Bloomsbury | 0747562598 |
| Turn Again Home | Carol Birch | Virago | 1860499724 |
| Crossing the Lines | Melvyn Bragg | Sceptre | 0340829656 |
| Elizabeth Costello | J.M. Coetzee | Secker & Warburg | 0436206161 |
| The Taxi Driver's Daughter | Julia Darling Viking | Viking Penguin | 0670914193 |
| Schopenhauer's Telescope | Gerard Donovan | Scribner | 0743239202 |
| The Good Doctor | Damon Galgut | Atlantic Books | 1843542013 |
| The Romantic | Barbara Gowdy | Flamingo | 0007156278 |
| The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time | Mark Haddon | David Fickling/ Random House |
0224063782 |
| Notes on a Scandal | Zoe Heller | Viking Penguin | 0670914061 |
| The Nick of Time | Francis King | Arcadia Books | 1900850788 |
| Heligoland | Shena Mackay | Jonathan Cape | 0224059343 |
| Astonishing Splashes of Colour | Clare Morrall | Tindal Street Press | 0954130324 |
| Jazz etc | John Murray | Flambard Fiction | 1873226624 |
| Something Might Happen | Julie Myerson | Jonathan Cape | 0224063928 |
| Judge Savage | Tim Parks | Secker & Warburg | 043620598X |
| Vernon God Little | DBC Pierre | Faber and Faber | 0571215157 |
| Waxwings | Jonathan Raban | Picador | 0330413201 |
| The Light of Day | Graham Swift | Hamish Hamilton | 0241142040 |
| Frankie & Stankie | Barbara Trapido | Bloomsbury | 074756034X |
